Re: Goodbye Meego, goodbye Nokia
 

I know what you mean its deeply disappointing.

As a european I was hoping Nokia would offer credible competition to US companies.

Oh well I guess an android phone will be my next device (if it can run a chroot version of linux and proper bluetooth support - keyboards & mice)

Re: Goodbye Meego, goodbye Nokia
 

Succeed in what? dominating the world with closed OS's and devices you have spent 600 euros or dollars or more to buy that you cannot have control over like the ****ing i-crap?

I am simply devastated today, I really cannot believe Nokia did that to themselves and us.

Re: Goodbye Meego, goodbye Nokia
 

Should that not be Goodbye Meego HELLO Nokia ?.

Re: Goodbye Meego, goodbye Nokia
 

Nokia made a big mistake hiring M$ exec. Right now Elop signed death warrant for Nokia. Such a waste...

Re: Goodbye Meego, goodbye Nokia
 

So you're saying that if Nokia ships many WP 7 phones, the market share will be big enough for developers to take it seriously and develop lots of apps.

But, this wouldn't apply to Meego (if Nokia had instead decided to select Meego as the 'primary smartphone platform')?

The Nokia Qt SDK is available for multiple platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux), whereas the SDK for WP7 is only available for Windows, so iPhone developers (who will develop on Mac OS) will need another platform to develop for Nokia?

Existing Qt apps for desktops (which would need minimal porting work to Meego) are of no value.

Existing Qt apps for Symbian were a total waste of developer investment?

Nokia promised "a Meego device", so we shouldn't assume it is a handset yet.

I think I'll be looking at Web OS, especially since they appear to be shipping Qt, otherwise I think I will go with Android. Or, maybe I'll buy another N900.

Re: Goodbye Meego, goodbye Nokia
 

That's for sure. Im getting myself a new N900 incase my old one dies on me. I can't see my life working without this phone. I love it to damn much <3

--Futtawuh

Re: Goodbye Meego, goodbye Nokia
 

Your definition of fully functional could be very different from the definition of a lot of people here, is like calling light the moonlight when we all have been seen the sunlight already. You think would be anything similar in WP7 of what happened i.e. around kernel power or fcam, to put 2 easy examples?

Re: Goodbye Meego, goodbye Nokia
 

Well buchanmilne the problem is we are obviously stuck with what Nokia decide to do and as it now has a ex Bill Gates wiz kid at its helm you can only expect by reading in between the lines as to the area he will take Nokia.

It is of no use quoting anything right now but my bet is we will see a new generation OS from the Windows stable that will have huge development going for it and as Nokia are in trouble i would think from a bussiness strategic point of view the teaming of 2 of the worlds giants can only mean one thing... a Windows OS of the future and personally i am all with it IF it gets the development going for a much improved Windows Mobile platform, just look at the interest on this very thread... should that not tell us something?.

Re: Goodbye Meego, goodbye Nokia
 

I guess it depends if you're here as a Nokia fanboy or as a Meego/Maemo/Linux fanboy. You're clearly in the former, most people here are the latter. Why would anybody hear give a s**t what happens to Nokia and WP7? They've given their time and effort trying to help the platform and have been stabbed in the back IMHO.

If you want to blow smoke up Nokia and the WP7 tie up this perhaps is not the best place to do it.

(BTW I'm a Windows on the desktop man myself and like MS - but have less than no interest in WP7)

Re: Goodbye Meego, goodbye Nokia
 

I guess I will go back to owning two devices.

My n900 is a great little linux computer. I will probably go back to a "proper" mobile phone or low-end android device.

I hope the development of stuff like getting linux distros like ubuntu running on the n900, easy debian and stuff like that continues.