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Matan is offline Matan
2009-05-26 , 19:29
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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
Peter, ragnar, Quim, take this to heart (and I'm sure you already get it): continual developer interest maintenance is absolutely essential for not just software survival but hardware as well. If very large software/hardware release gaps are allowed to persist, and become the norm, the products will lose momentum and developer interest will shift elsewhere.

After all, what did all these talented guys do before internet tablets?
Actually, this is probably the reason for keeping the 800x480 resolution, even though it makes little sense on a little screen. Imagine what the interest in Maemo 5 alpha/beta would be if they announced at the summit that it targets 640x400 resolution.

Originally Posted by johnkzin
I'd also like to hear if there's going to be a netbook. But, yes, I'd be happy without any more detail than: yes/no on the phone, yes/no on the N8x0 size tablet, yes/no on a netbook or netbook sized tablet.
A phone is interesting, and a netbook is interesting, but a tablet is what this community was built around, not "maemo".
 

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