Re: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
 

For me the openness of Maemo was the only reason I ever bought a N900. If I wanted shitloads of great and not great apps and a slick interface I can't see why you'd ever pick something other than ios or android.

My experience with the applications on Maemo is that there is a lot and that they work great. I can't really think of a single thing (apart from the game Ancient domains of mystery) I'm really missing. I receive updates several times a week btw, maybe you need to enable the testing and devel repos if you want to update more.


Seriously they way you put it, it really looks like disrespect.

Re: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
 

I once had a fiend that said to me why would you ever buy an Audi (with respect to German cars). If you want luxury go for a Merc.
If you want a sporty number go for a BMW or Porsche. Seems to be the same for Android to me. If you want Apps why not get a fruit phone? If you want openess....

If app's were important in the Open source world Linux, would have died a long time ago, I mean not even 1% of the desktop market WTF. Sure it would be nice to have shed loads of apps, but for me standards and choice are more important, and Open source keeps all the proprietary companies honest. Nokia will always get my £500 every 18 months as long as they continue to invest upstream.

Re: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
 

Well tbh a standard Linux distro is loaded with quality productivity applications, not so much fart apps and 3d games which the masses somehow seem to like. Debian has around 20k applications in the repositories.

Re: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
 

Eh, I don't know.. I'm kind of fed up by Nokia's "support on a shoe string". With the combination of driver lock outs, strategically placed close bits, short term supports, half-@ssed 3rd party strategy.. they're pretty effective in shutting down devices.

If I'm a reasonable person, I'd say they were doing all this with a single purpose of planned obsolescence...

Re: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
 

Worst car analogy ever. It's not too late for an edit or delete.

Re: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
 

As a former Audi 80 owner (1989 model) I can only agree.

Re: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
 

The openness of an OS has nothing to do with the availability (or lack) of applications. That has everything to do with someone providing an avenue by which they can be sold, and Nokia's sloppy execution of Ovi is the main culprit.

Numbers. Total end users. It's all about that. If the iPhone was unpopular it would never have had a real SDK nor the mass number of Apps written for it.

Re: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
 

Apple XCode existed before the Apple iPhone. The SDK was necessary to support development on the iPhone and iPod Touch once it came out.

The API was so well-documented that it's extended to stuff like Unity3D, Visual Studio .NET, and other IDE's - which accelerated adoption.

That last part is what's wrong with Qt imho. It's been around for ages; however I can't just open up TextMate or XCode or Visual Studio or Komodo ActiveState or Coda and start coding off the bat.

Re: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
 

But you can open up Qt Creator, which is the Qt equivalent. What is missing from Qt that the other platforms have? And in the end you can't just start throwing code at things, otherwise you end up in a pinch and rewriting stuff (I know this from experience.)

Re: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
 

Yeah, right after I hit send, I remembered Qt Creator.

I just never quite liked it - seems slow to me on my Mac whereas it's not so slow on my Linux box - which is much lesser spec'd.