Thread: Alternative history: What if Jolla never existed?
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tortoisedoc is offline tortoisedoc
2015-11-25 , 09:03
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Originally Posted by smoku View Post
There is one more thing Maemo did right, which MeeGo/Mer/SailfishOS didn't learn from - the apps ecosystem.

Maemo tapped the existing GTK+ apps ecosystem - it took a day or two of hacking to "Hildonize" a GTK+ app to work on Maemo device. And work pretty well.
Whereas in MeeGo line all apps needed to be created for scratch.

Compare the repos here for Maemo5 and the poor OpenRepos for MeeGo etc.
NOW we have a good argument here.
The portability of apps makes a whole lot of difference; although it's not a disruptive-type-of-feature; BB for example supports QT, Native, Adobe Air and android and we know how well that went.
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