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tkatchev is offline tkatchev
2011-05-24 , 14:34
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#21
Yeah.

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/jobs/201...cing-40092621/

Also, see what people from the inside have leaked online:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment..._was_recently/

Originally Posted by Jedibeeftrix View Post
that's news to me, can you back that up?

........... i rather doubt it given that they currently have 75 meego jobs on offer right now!
 
tkatchev is offline tkatchev
2011-05-24 , 14:39
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OK, granted: Harmattan is not Maemo.

It's not Meego either, though.

From a developer standpoint -- if you have to port your app from Harmattan to run on a Meego device, then it's not Meego.

The change from .deb to .rpm alone is a huge deal-breaker.

If you're calling your OS 'Meego', then it damn well should be able to install .rpms of Meego apps.

Originally Posted by slider5 View Post
Hum...
Peter Schneider, Head of MeeGo Marketing at Nokia :


https://www.meego.com/community/blog...-meego-efforts

The truth about MeeGo Harmattan (Quim) :




http://maemo.org/community/maemo-com...n_posts_page=3

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Jedibeeftrix is offline Jedibeeftrix
2011-05-24 , 14:42
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Originally Posted by tkatchev View Post
Yeah.

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/jobs/201...cing-40092621/

Also, see what people from the inside have leaked online:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment..._was_recently/
not good enough, a source talks of the effective abandonment of Meego.

does nothing to dispute or refute the Feb11th press-release from nokia saying that meego was being scaled back as a target of investment given that it was now a project and not a platform.

scaled back, not canned or closed, and given the ridiculous sum nokia has traditionally spent on R&D the post-Elopalypse Meego investment by nokia is still significant.
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kanishou is offline kanishou
2011-05-24 , 14:44
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Originally Posted by tkatchev View Post
Yeah.

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/jobs/201...cing-40092621/

Also, see what people from the inside have leaked online:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment..._was_recently/
That first one is one guy talking who got laid off two years ago.

The second one talks about the Symbian layoffs/transfer and further future planned layoffs.

I'm not aware of anyone having been fired yet. Nokia is still very much committed to this next device. After that, we will see.
 

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tkatchev is offline tkatchev
2011-05-24 , 14:48
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Please, spare me the corporatese.

'Scaled back' means Nokia will release whatever they cooked up for the N9 Harmattan device, and then immediately go on to fire their whole Linux department.

If you think Elop and Microsoft will finance Linux development while WP7 is circling down the drain, then you must be insane.


Originally Posted by Jedibeeftrix View Post
not good enough, a source talks of the effective abandonment of Meego.

does nothing to dispute or refute the Feb11th press-release from nokia saying that meego was being scaled back as a target of investment given that it was now a project and not a platform.

scaled back, not canned or closed, and given the ridiculous sum nokia has traditionally spent on R&D the post-Elopalypse Meego investment by nokia is still significant.
 
Frappacino is offline Frappacino
2011-05-24 , 15:02
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i wonder if some of you guys even work in a big corporation

The political battles have already been fought and Meego lost utterly. The loser will now be put on the back burner with a skeleton crew while its full steam for WP7.

This next and last device is only released for 1 reason - they have nearly finished the device, might as well release it and recoup as much cost as possible. But you can bet your *** they will not spend anything significant more to push it - its about maximising sales at this point.
 
vi_ is offline vi_
2011-05-24 , 15:07
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1. WIll there be an SDK ala fremantle?

2. How much of it can we backport/steal/copy to n900?
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Jedibeeftrix is offline Jedibeeftrix
2011-05-24 , 15:17
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Originally Posted by tkatchev View Post
Please, spare me the corporatese.

'Scaled back' means Nokia will release whatever they cooked up for the N9 Harmattan device, and then immediately go on to fire their whole Linux department.

If you think Elop and Microsoft will finance Linux development while WP7 is circling down the drain, then you must be insane.
still not good enough.

If nokia can come out and announce the complete closure of symbian investment, and symbian phones, then they could just as easily do the same for Meego.

they did not.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/11/rip-symbian/
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2011-05-24 , 15:36
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Originally Posted by vi_ View Post
1. WIll there be an SDK ala fremantle?
Quim has mentioned many times that there will be a Harmattan SDK release.

Originally Posted by vi_ View Post
2. How much of it can we backport/steal/copy to n900?
I don't think anyone knows, yet.
 
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