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Originally Posted by woody14619 View Post
That I think we can agree on. But governance itself is not a substitute for actual code. Compared to iOS, or Android, or even what's left of the council here, MeeGo does win in that regard. I'm just noting that it should be treated as what it is: temporary.
Why do you think it's temporary? Especially now that the community office is taking on contributors outside of Nokia and Intel and we're hoping to have the same in the Technical Steering Group.

Originally Posted by woody14619 View Post
There are very few people here that do this type of work as their main job. I'm blessed in that I get paid to do something I like (very close to this, but not phone/tablet related), though it does tend to limit how much I can contribute to community projects, both for time and logistical reasons.

I agree to a limited regard. Getting people to cross-compile or develop for both targets is a great thing. I'd love to see apps from here move rather seamlessly to MeeGo if it takes off.

I'm just asking that things be talked about realistically, based on where things are, not on where we want or expect things to be in three months. Doing otherwise can cause people to lose interest in both platforms, which helps no one.
Well, realistically, the current state is that our adaptation is pretty good, accelerometer does actually work, contrary to what you mentioned earlier. It really can be used as a day-to-day device, like I said earlier I do. What I miss, and what stops me moving completely to MeeGo for my work phone as well as my personal phone, is actually the lack of a couple of apps I really like on Maemo (Conboy is probably the primary).

So the main thing is we need some apps porting, if I had the time I'd do it myself, what I'm really after is for a few devs to port their apps and I'll be willing to help them do it. Outside of apps, we're working on making the performance better and soon we'll have a nice new shiny browser, though Opera works really well.
 

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