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#148
Originally Posted by RogueElement View Post
Its a shame due to this new arena of instant response, and its hard to actually put into words through internet what you have seen/done etc.
The enourmous hours of work put into the N900 CE Meego OS is pretty admirable.
But I have to say, in my line of work I would have been got rid off already.

Why is it taking so long or, as I suspect, its not anywhere near a productive reality. Is it just a training ground for future good guys to step up like designing cars for shows that never make production?

What a waste of this space if thats the case as I feel people have invested in this emotionally to work, why not come clean like said car makers?
I'm not really sure of what you're expecting? Some people say that the linux desktop isn't ready yet but I've been using it just fine since 1998. CE is improving and on the N9/N950 it'll run a tad better as you don't need to use external sd card. Also, there are some work started on improving the UX a lot:
http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=3081

It's not ready yet but it's based on the tablet UX so I don't think it'll take that long to make it work (no guarantees though in open source). When I get the N950 I'll definitely primarily run the CE as it's 100% open. The swipe UX is solely developed by Nokia so it's a no go for community devs.
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But the WM7 "horse" has a blood lineage tracing back to donkeys such as WM6.5, 6.1, 6.0, 5.1 that was fully neglected for too many years and Microsoft did sweet F all to maintain it (still running on Pocket IE4/6!!).