Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 

Sygic representatives, a very important question:

Is Sygic navigation SW based on Qt framework??

With the announcement about Meego I can't avoid to think that it wouldn't be worthy to buy a GPS app which would not run on Meego. Even if Nokia decides not to support an upgrade for N900 probably the community will build a Meego port, that's why I am asking...

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 

Its not that MeeGo only will support QT apps.. GTK apps will run just fine.

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 

today phone chat with sygic customer center:

nokia forbide sygic in december not to release the navigation software for n900

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 

It doesn't need to be. Meego supports GTK and Qt. Same as Maemo 5.

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 

i call BS on the above!! you cannot forbid someone to release software at all! its open source!

Also they have confirmed that program has been released to nokia for retail

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 

Well you couldn't forbid them, but Nokia could make it harder for the developers to get paid since they wouldn't be going through the secured Ovi Store market.

But then again Ovi Store was found not to be that secure to begin with (you could download anything in the Ovi repo with an apt-get command) so that is likely holding back the apps we're waiting on (Sygic, those games we've seen in the Youtube video, etc..).

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 

I'm going to buy myself a Tomtom gps if it's not released by the end of next week..
This is taking too long.
What was the first realese date again? End of December?

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 

If the platform is open source, why does any developer need to get through Ovi store? Nokia aint doing a good job with customer satisfaction in countless ways. Can't developers just bypass Nokia all together?

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 

they dont have to go through OVI...thats the whole point. just setup their repo's and away they go.

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 

yeah, it sounds stupid for Sygic to lose so many customers who are eagerly waiting for the software while waiting for Nokia's nod. Probably they are just waiting to get the brownie points from Nokia but at what cost!?