Thread: Post Tizen - MeeGo / Harmattan for N900?
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geohsia is offline geohsia
2011-09-28 , 23:47
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Originally Posted by onethreealpha View Post
To my understanding I'm not aware of any efforts to bring harmattan to N900 in it's current N950/N9 form, so I guess there's no change there.
Got it. For some reason I remember a MeeGo-Harmattan HE or something but with all of the various iterations I probably misunderstood.

As for the N900CE (REAL Meego) builds, I can only hope that we'll see the 1.3 release before it all ends.
And for what purpose? There will be no MeeGo based products in the future

Harmattan is now the only MeeGo related release ever existing. As far as I recall while people mention MeeGo-compatible, I don't think that was ever officially stated by the MeeGo community or Intel. Again, I defer to others who would clarify more the exact situation.

Given that Intel has been fairly specific about Tizen targetting Intel chipsets, I would think that all Arm ports of Meego may not have much of a future, so for those interested, now might be a good time to start downloading the non-oss components from the repo.
Without the support of Nokia and closed source bits what use would this be for?

Don't assume that Meego was the distraction that caused all the grief for Nokia.
Nokia's decision to completely rewrite for Qt was the major hurdle for the quick and smooth progression of Fremantle to Harmattan, not their involvement with Meego.
While I do not work for Nokia I'm sure there were many a meeting and many a technical discussion and many a what-if scenario charting how the Fremantle / Harmattan world changes in preparation for MeeGo. Any and all efforts around that would have taken away from the "smooth progression" of Fremantle to Harmattan. I mean just look at all of the threads on the forum.

I can only guess that resources poured into MeeGo could have also been better used with Harmattan. I would not say that MeeGo came at no cost. It certainly will bear no fruit.