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MeeGo is da Man
Very good read
http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/mobilep...2204005,00.htm MeeGo is the future for Nokias smartphones. At least that is the plan, but making good plans has never been a problem for Nokia, they need to execute and deliver as well. The N9 will run Maemo with a "MeeGo" UX. But the (Maemo)MeeGo UX will not be the UX that is going to be used on real MeeGo phones. Nokia will not encourage people developing for that UX, but will instead encourage developing on Qt and Qt Quick. This will probably be just fine, but think about all the wasted work: Symbian4 UX wasted, Maemo\MeeGo UX wasted. Strange indeed. |
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He is, isn't he?
But I thought FOSS is also partially about sticking it to da man? |
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As I understand, Intel MeeGo for handsets is as good as finished, ready for prime time. Why don't Nokia simply go fwd with Intel? Given the choice I would rather have a Intel smart(whatever) than a cripled ARM (in comparisom). As it is now, Nokia will be late also for MeeGo, maybe too late? Intel smartphones will get there first. |
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So it is a change of direction, why should we believe it, and why shouldn,t we believe that what they actually mean this time is something different? Maybe the US bloggers have been correct all along. Maybe Nokia doesn't have what it takes anymore? |
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The work before Qt was wasted. The switch to Qt on Symbian and Meego means less waste in future, but highlights the waste of different toolkits before Qt. The more interesting part of the article is 400 Microsoft engineers developing on Qt for Office on Symbian. Will Office come to Meego too then? What does that mean for FreOffice? |
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It's also far from ready for prime time. MeeGo 1.1 (due to be "released" shortly) contains many bugs that would be considered release blockers in any other distribution but get through here because of MeeGo's "take what's in the repos on $RELEASEDATE and call it $NEXTVERSION" policy. Additionally, it looks like there's going to be an ABI break with 1.2 (softfp vs hardfp) so even the promise of forward binary compatibility is broken. In short, MeeGo Handset 1.1 is only useful for development purposes, 1.2 (hopefully) will be the first release that will be suitable for building commercial products and that's 6 months away. |
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http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/featu...mbian_plat.php |
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I'm having this major deja vu all over again. Flashbacks to OpenZaurus / OpenEmbedded included. So much for people learning from history. :rolleyes: |
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