Thread: N9 [Shipping]: It's finally here [for some]!
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Bernard is offline Bernard
2011-09-16 , 10:23
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Originally Posted by ste-phan View Post
This gives met the depressive feeling that the same person that has decided that a grid of colourful icons on a square looking phone is the way to present a high end portable device anno 2011 is the one that lacked the set of balls needed to ignore intel MeeGo , board and steam full force with Harmatan + QT towards end of 2010 release of N950.
The packaging is very similar to iPhone and Palm Pre. Not very special in my opinion.

I really don't believe harmattan or Qt were ready or even could have been ready back then. if you look at the state of the SDK at that time, a lot of things were not working correctly, not integrated in the SDK yet, or just not finished. (No QML, no QtQuick, no OpenGL support for Symbian etc. etc. ).
If the tools needed to make applications aren't finished, how can you expect the applications for the platform or the platform in general to be ready?

I also believe that originally the harmattan for the N950 device intended for 2010 was planned to be something very different from what we see now. In the maemo summit 2009 nobody mentioned stuff like QML, and some design images for maemo 6 appeared much more Qt-rewrite-of-maemo5 style OS.
 

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