Thread: Who is going to make a geek phone?
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gerbick
2011-06-22 , 19:19
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Originally Posted by daperl View Post
Hi, I'm daperl, an actual Maemo 5, Maemo 4, former iOS and just-starting Harmattan developer. You're spreading FUD. Please don't.
Eh? How is it FUD when there's truth in it? In the absolute idea of what's open and what's not, Maemo was not "open". I know it's not binary, but to the group of folks around here, it somehow became binary.

Or... it became "it's more open than <insert anything else including your toaster>" which, while more correct, is just a circular argument waiting to happen.

FUD my arse. It's not entirely open, but it's more open than most - that last part was implicit.

Open isn't binary (that's kinda geek funny), it's a spectrum. You can't talk about the "openness" or "closedness" of Diablo/Fremantle/Harmattan and iOS in the same sentence and still be credible.
Because you say so? Regardless, I disagree. I can do so because I was a Diablo user, lover and developer (not a good one, admittedly). Then Maemo 5 came, ripped that from under my feet, so I went back to Adobe Flex - which has an open SDK.

When us developers and hackers finish going through the APIs, we'll let you know how open or closed Harmattan is. Thanks.
I'm not the one asking, truth be told - I tend to do my own research. And I doubt you'll tell me anything more than what's been said thus far... it's as open as Maemo 5.