I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

I am so sick and tired of symbian/Maemo, etc.. Nokia has been acting so desperately but unable to compete and fullfill their user's taste, unfortunately Symbian failed miserably, here in the U.S, if you say Symbian , meego or Maemo, people will laugh at you, Android is the future, plenty of APPS to download, very useful things, nice GPS. what do we get as Maemo users, nothing, i have been with Nokia since 2005, i've always loved their N-series, now I am about to say goodbye and move to either iOP or Android..

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

What Maemo apps exactly are useless?
99% of the programs in the repos are useful.

Contrast that to Android, useless crap left and right, and on every app store. iOS programs are toys (blame that on the restrictions placed by Apple. Even a jailbroken iPhone is no fun.)

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

The fact this is your first post since joining in December 2010... bravo.

You will draw the heat of all of the Maemo/MeeGo/Symbian lovers on this thread.

http://gerbick.com/images/popcorn.gif

I'm from SC. IOP = Isle of Palms

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

you are right you are "sick" because you don't know or you don't understand what the maemo and maemo.org is!

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

I have one word for you: noob

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

Ahahahahhh you said the m-word!! Ahahahahhaahah
LOSER!!

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

Are they looking at your face once they laugh?? If not, still on your face?

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

Thanks for posting. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

then go get an android phone and dont look back. we dont need more negativity on this forum. tell me what apps are you missing? the gps works fine. the reason it requires network is the same for every phone device.

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

Sit on my facebook and say that you love me.

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

He's kind of right, you know. Maemo has like one fart app and the farts aren't even that good.

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

Well...no one stoping you from leaving Nokia & TMO here....
before you go away i would like to say.....

" NaNaNaNa......NaNaNaNa....OooYeaYea....GUDBYE!!!! "

Now Get Out Before We Kicked You Out!!!
:D :D :D :D :D

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

Honestly, what did you expect to get by posting that here? Why don't you go off to the Android communities and post how much happier you are now that you're poking around with one of these devices, instead? What's the point of opening up a thread JUST to vent that out in that way?

Don't get me wrong--I understand how frustrated you are and what an incredible breath of fresh air it is to go to a platform with far more support from every direction you look in, where you actually get a myriad of available applications to choose from and the apps get updated and improved over the years instead of stagnating... and a platform where buying the next generation of device doesn't mean you have to start all over again as a developer and wait for re-releases all over again as an end-user. But you KNOW posting that on here will only enrage the Maemo/MeeGo faithful and make them feel defensive. ...or was that the whole point? Are you really that bored?

PS - Yes, I'm aware of the irony. ;)

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

I agree with this post. Maemo has a pleasantly high percentage of useful apps if you ask me...

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

lol

you think thats bad ?

here in au you mention maemo n meego you get blank looks !

at least where you r ppl know what it is !

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

OMG ONLY ONE FART APP??? Elop was right this is a burning platform :p

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

Y'all HBT. YHL. HAND.

Farts... burning...
I get it now: Elop is a teenager with a childish sense of humor.

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

Let me get this straight, you:

• Made only one post so far as indicated by a fair few members.
• Got no thanks from any of your posts due to your lack of contribution.
• Never asked any question or discussed anything.
• Had to put the word `apps' in capitals just to signify that maemo never had any but you probably never bothered to look for any. You probably expect `apps' to magically pop up in front of you saying `install me!' which in other words you're probably no better than someone who loves popup advertisements as that's the sort of thing to keep you entertained.
• Couldn't spell iOS right, as its not called iOP.
• Are easily distracted when people mock you for having a nokia device in which you probably couldn't even unleash its full potential of.
• Never realised the power of the community here.

Yup that actually makes lots of sense, you won't be missed. Its like as if you have been holding your own fart since the beginning and decided to let it all out in one post.

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

Relax. Nokia knows the problems with Symbian/Maemo/meeGo and will soon deliver loads of WP phones. These are super-slick ultra modern, fashionable devices that does everything you want, tons of apps are already made, and several more tons are coming. The OS is still fresh out the oven, so not all features are in place, but continuous updates will pour out like flocks of birds and make Nokia-WP the best experience ever.

Myself, I like Symbian and Harmattan (MeeGo is dead and boring as far as I'm concerned).

Anyway, in case you don't like any of this, remember:
Bada rox - always.

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

Maemo has lots of apps Android hasn't:
MicroB - with it you can use fully pc versions of sites
aircrack-ng
preenv
nitdroid :D

And still want android apps, dude?! Havntcha heard bout NITdroid, sucker?!

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

and now this guy who started the thread sits quie :P

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

Yep Rumor has it that the first big comercial app for Nokia WP7 phones will be able to light farts. IN YOUR FACE ANDROID AND iOS.
That's an ecosystem I wanna be part off

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

Actually, here in the US, the only reason why most people would laugh at the mention of "Maemo" and "MeeGo" is because, to someone who hasn't heard them used before--which is a majority of people here, they sound like baby-words and babble. Nokia hasn't been particularly brilliant at naming these OS's.

Android has instead of...

MicroB: Android browser, Firefox, Opera Mobile, Dolphin and more--all of which have the option to view either mobile or desktop versions of websites. It's GREAT having options, isn't it?

aircrack-ng: Nothin', as far as I can tell. You got me there! Sorry, you're going to have to hold off of cracking into wifi routers and go do something legal instead.

preenv: Android OS--you know, there are far more applications on a platform that is supported by hardware manufacturers and its own founders--unlike the WebOS platform emulation that you shoehorn with preenv. Still, if you REALLY want WebOS apps, you got me there, too! :)

nitdroid: A real and fully functional Android operating system, with working phone, camera and other hardware--because Android devices were made for Android to start with. nitdroid is a nice shoehorn, but it's not quite the same as a fully functioning OS.

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

AAaargh I'd forget to mention
DOSBox + Win95,98
Running WinNT Mac OS
Meego port
Kubuntu Mobile
and (the most important)
All the things are in one phone

About browser: Can you view full gmail (not the html view, the full heavy interface)?

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

maybe if he was "uniqueguy1" (or just "uniqueguy") he'd have liked maemo better.

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

Wait... did somebody actually mention Preenv as a positive!?

http://gerbick.com/images/yo_dawg.jpg

Oh man, I have been waiting to use that one

Wait... again. Are you serious? Can NitDroid even make phone calls fully yet?

Or is that a Android within Android joke? If so... well played.

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

Everyone knows Nokia F****D everything up, the possibilties of this and future linux devices were endless, but as usual people who lead big companies such as this lack foresight and therefore consigned this great OS to an untimely slow death. FYI unless you are or were a valued member of the community, no.......one......cares

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

It can make and receive them. You just can't hear anything. Then again, do you really want to? I mean I hardly use my phone features at all, texting, emailing, etc. Quicker to just say "hey, we on for some LAN?" Then to have to actually talk to someone and ask how they're doing, etc.

Besides, saying that Android has Opera and Firefox isn't a plus over Maemo anyhow, since they are also on Maemo.

I recently bought an Android tablet, and besides the fact that NITDroid runs better on my non-overclocked N900, I would say 90% of all the Android apps are duplicates of other Apps and the other 10% are just plain garbage.

How about Android's complete lack of running any of the gnu utilities without rooting? What about being able to multi-task without having a third party app? Or even with a third party App, multitasking on the Android platform is like being punched in the face. Irritates the hell out of me.

Oh, and I recently discovered 'cause of only having a tablet without 3G, that there currently is no Offline Google Maps.

That is definitely one thing Nokia did right (even if the N900's version of OviMaps is missing voice activation by default).

slaapliedje

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

well i guess the guy who started this thread is yet again vanished in the darkness ,by posting his 1st ever thread/1st ever post... wat was he thinkin ?? seems like he want us to throw him out of this community ... no more reply on this usless thread guys...!!! leave him alone he will never be able to understand the Power of Meamo even if we try to make him... :)

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

Yeah... that's quite possibly one of the highest features I want on any phone... the ability to make/receive and hear the phone calls.

I guess that's where we differ. I actually use my phone for voice - personal and business. And to be honest, having the needs of folks that don't use voice or the phone features dictate my usage of those features is quite annoying.

It's like me handing somebody a toilet to take a **** on, yet removing the handle since I don't like shiny objects and don't have a use for them.

If you don't use a phone for the phone features, then honestly a phone isn't what you needed. And I don't want to drop into that semantic-laden battle that a N900 isn't a phone, it's a portable computer. The moment you added the GSM radio and ability to text via a phone number and not via Google Voice or some other relay system like you can do on your computer, it became a phone.

But their development and updates is most likely going to continue on Android - and I need improvements for HTML5. I have doubts for Maemo.

And I say that about Maemo. Too many holes too.

Then it was the wrong device for you then.

Multi-tasking is great on the N900. I just don't find it all that useful when I have to switch to a phone call and it just hangs and I miss a very important phone call. Or that really... I'm not finding a lot of apps to multi-task. Browser, Maps, E-Mail (Modest sucks), Terminal (many commands there, but not GitHub/Capistrano), and... well, that's about it when I used my N900.

But yeah... multi-tasking on Android plain sucks.

Agree here. If it did work better, I'd know I'd multi-task more apps than I ever could on Maemo - more there that I'd use. Maemo is missing apps that I'd use in conjunction.

Yep. Tablets are different than the phones in that respect - you were talking about the N900 and the corresponding Android phones earlier, right? Now the jump to the tablets is a bit... well, uneven. Phones have 3G + Wifi. Tablets - well, my Xoom at least - is only Wifi.

Apples to apples, oranges to oranges. I think your comparison is a bit amiss.

It still had to "connect" out to "Find Places" - at least initially that was the case.

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

Seriously, NITDroid? Not only do you have to reboot to use that, at which point you are deprived of the loveliness which is Maemo5, power and battery management doesn't work properly on it. It won't recognise a fully charged battery when I put a freshly charged one in, often giving me a battery low message then shutting down. It doesn't do any power management on the wifi radio, meaning if I have wifi on it'll get rather hot and drain the battery quicker than necessary. NITDroid, unless significant improvement has occurred in the last release or two, is lousy.

Don't take this rant as criticism of the NITDroid devs, I appreciate and respect all the hard work they have put in to getting it to its current state, it is just that I don't find its current state very usable, it is only useful if I really need to use an Android app.

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LMFAO!!

Thats the funniest thing I've read on here in a long time. Damn those pesky phonecalls. Nokia should stop that function on the next PR upgrade.

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

Yeah, screw that talking to people lark. What a horrifying thought. Eeeeuuwwww, it's so 1950's.

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

Having put to rest my Nokia N900 (RIP MyNokiaN900) for a Samsung Galaxy S2, the one thing I miss the most is the ability to multi-boot into Maemo or Android or run scripts via X-Term. Having experienced Android for the past 3 weeks, I've been pleasantly surprised at the speed of the device together with the Android OS. I have also gotten involved in the Android Community and started to experiment with loading new ROMS, and Kernels etc. It's good fun getting involved, experimenting, telling others etc.

Any device or should I say Smartphone can feel like a stupid toy if one doesn't take the time to understand it, break it, rebuild it, learn it, install new software, play with it, break it again, get on the forums and ask loads of questions, answer questions other are asking.... all of these things are part of having a Smartphone.

When I read the first post I just thought.... TOSSER!, you've not experienced the N900 because you have never gotten involved or contributed to this wonderful Maemo Community. 1 Post is hardly getting involved. Like others have said, there are some awesome programs that Maemo has that Android or Apple can just dream of (TV remote control programs come to mind) and I suspect this chap will go to Android, or Apple and get bored very quickly with the tens of thousands of the same App, with 5 star ratings...

Probably the worst place to moan about Maemo as well... Clearly not very bright! ;)

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

^^ Woah, what happened to your N900 mate?

I know that you are, or were, probably one of the most enthusiastic N900 owners out there.

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

nothing is useless on the repos........you just don't know how to use all of those apps. I'm not saying that I can, but ones I read, research, and understand, I found most of those programs maybe useful for me, if not for me, then to somebody else.

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

Hmm, I wouldn't say that "nothing" is useless on the repos. Tarring everything with the same brush there and life isn't like that.

I've installed a couple of whoppers from the repos that came straight back off within minutes.

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

then you have a very good "attention to detail" skills.

EDIT: i got your point James, i saw an app, description is written using some hieroglyphic type of letters and symbols I can't read...USELESS!!!

to the OP: see how useless I am?

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

I didn't say you were useless lol. Damn, I feel bad now.

Re: I am sick and tired of Useless Maemo Apps, iam about to say goodbye to Nokia
 

I was just playing :) coz at some point I need to agree with you :D