Thread: Where is Nokia - no announcement no product - still in hibernation
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2009-01-12 , 13:07
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#264
Originally Posted by Peter@Maemo Marketing View Post
I think the point Quim was trying to make is that our work in Maemo Software is a R&D function. That is 50% R and 50% D. A lot of our work is research at one stage of a project and development at a a later stage when we built a piece of software for a device. Especially, our work in open source is partially separate from the work to built devices. You will see increasingly more and more contributions to upstream projects not only for Fremantle but also Harmattan. To make conclusions from open source contributions about individual products becomes increasingly difficult. Work in open source should not by linked too close to products as long one competes with closed operating systems.
AFAIK, the Maemo team is not a part of NRC. I think you guys are now being a little too cute. You invited feedback on the tablet HW, and now that you've got it (and it isn't what you expected?), there is this attempt to separate the two. Yes, there could be device variants. But some of us know Nokia. We know Nokia will not release a N900, a N901 and a N902 all at the same time. And I doubt you will externally license Fremantle so that others can produce differing devices. We know that if Maemo 5 is released, and the only tablet does not have HW keys, then development for HW keys dries up. You probably know that too.

And the issue still remains unanswered of whether Maemo 5 will still support the existing HW keys.
 

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