Re: Petition to get the official MeeGo support back on the N900
 

the apps will be backwards compatible unless there are any hardware requirements

Re: Petition to get the official MeeGo support back on the N900
 

Useless comment in a useless thread.

Bump :)

Re: Petition to get the official MeeGo support back on the N900
 

Apple argues that it is, and petitioned against a DMCA exception for Jailbreaking. Certainly it isn't worth their time or money to pursue it, but they could whenever they felt it was.

My point, however, is that you have to -fight- Apple for control of your property. I don't want that fight. I especially don't want what Motorola does to their non-Milestone/DROID devices.

Whether carries supply it is immaterial, so long as the vendor makes it available. Certainly, that's one thing I do like about Nokia is not being -forced- to go through a carrier.

Do you mean that they ditched Maemo, which you say just as PR1.2 comes out? I would hold off on any ditching comments, especially with the N900 just now popping up in other countries.

Guaranteed obsolescence cycle, however. Though you might be able to migrate to android once the App Store starts blocking your device ;)

Re: Petition to get the official MeeGo support back on the N900
 

I just do not understand. MeeGo 1 was released into the wild for the N900 developers on May 25th. It's going to take a year until there is a useful product for the masses and Nokia has allocated manpower for the project. Maemo 6 is NOT MeeGo so therefore does not share the same cycle of development nor manpower (except for two people if memory serves...). That is a fact of life. Nokia will not change their business model unless it proves to profit them.

Re: Petition to get the official MeeGo support back on the N900
 

Well, maybe not that extreme, but they did come kind of close with their "Vista capable" crap they tried to pull. Vista sucks regardless, so why you'd want to install it on anything is beyond me...

slaapliedje

Re: Petition to get the official MeeGo support back on the N900
 

I am all for healthy debate, but I do think this topic is doomed to fail...

MeeGo...is a completely new and different OS
Nokia do not have to offer it free to anyone.

As someone else said, its like saying to Microsoft...why have they not updated Windows Vista users to Windows 7 for free?....
Microsoft offer updates to Windows Vista, and thats all yout entitled to....
If you want Windows 7, ya gota pay for it.

Putting all that aside....just because its new and shiny, does not mean its better!
And having said that, to what I have seen so far, the Maemo UI is far far nicer than MeeGo....I mean, crappy old fashioned tabs? How original.

And with QT, what does it matter, now that apps can be coded to work on both, meaning Maemo will never become extinct.

I would rather have an awesome, complete Maemo, than a ugly, buggy, and incomplete MeeGo.

Re: Petition to get the official MeeGo support back on the N900ib
 

Since it's the future of Nokia OS, or it'll be the "flagship OS"
id expect it'd be better than Maemo someday,
kinda dissapointed the didn't keep the promise :(

Re: Petition to get the official MeeGo support back on the N900ib
 

Symbian^4 will be the flagship OS. MeeGo and S40 are for niche markets

How long were you planning on keeping the n900 as your primary device?

Re: Petition to get the official MeeGo support back on the N900ib
 

Not according to this :

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...5&goto=newpost

* MeeGo phone being announced this year
* MeeGo phone will push the boudaries of processing power
* MeeGo phone will be a very high end product
* MeeGo is an opportunity to create something well beyond what others are doing
* MeeGo phone is step 5 of 5 and intended for mass market
* MeeGo phone will be something everyone wants to own
* MeeGo phone will try to satisfy all needs into one plate
* MeeGo phone will be capacitive, more stylish and more beautiful with simpler UI that average users will find as equally compelling as tech leaders.
* MeeGo has potential to be something deeper than typical smartphone
* Maemo apps not directly backwards compatible with MeeGo
* Nokia N8 will be Nokia’s flagship in a few months
* All future flagships will be built on MeeGo
* MeeGo phone will be on Nseries (not rumoured Sseries)
* MeeGo will have higher experience level than Symbian
* Symbian^3 and MeeGo will have certain minimum base level specification to ensure apps created on one device works in another.
* N8 is first step in reclaiming momentum at high end.
* MeeGo is the next step.

Re: Petition to get the official MeeGo support back on the N900ib
 

fair enough