Thread: Maemo buyout by the community??
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2011-09-29 , 01:48
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Originally Posted by geohsia View Post
If Nokia wasn't interested in the community I don't think they would have gone with MeeGo.

Though I understand your criticism, I think Harmattan / N9 turned out pretty well from what I've seen and it certainly wasn't because they opened the code or did any of the things you think they should have done.
Imagine how much better it could have been, had they developed code in cooperation with the community they portend to work with, instead of the confused mess they ended up with. I haven't used an N9 yet--I suspect you haven't either--but of what I've seen I wasn't impressed with. I think they could have made it far more flexible and capable than it is. The hardware has a few shining good features, but on the whole it's unimpressively closed too and will be difficult to repair. Oh well.

As i said... nothing better than what others are doing. Nokia really needed an ADVANTAGE. The N9 doesn't appear to be it and they've wasted all their opportunities.
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