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Quim keynote on Maemo's switch to Qt as the main toolkit
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REMFwhoopitydo
2009-07-06 , 08:10
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i raised the question of the development life-span of the n910 in two separate threads, principally because of the Intel/Nokia agreement to shift to the 32nm x86 platform due at the end of 2010.
i speculated that this would leave the Omap3 class of devices as development orphans, unattractive as they have neither the long lineage of previous NIT's, nor compatibility with the x86 NITS of the future, and thus would be uninteresting to the 3rd party maemo development community which breathes life into this ecosystem.
the possibility that n900/n910 devices will not have support for Harmatton would be a double blow, as I want to support this new QT/maemo future.
with the greatest of respect to the poster above, i am not interested in n770/n800/n810 devices, as i didn't join the maemo party in their prime, I am looking at the exciting Omap3 platform and wanting the exciting QT/maemo.
if i am left to speculate that the combination of Intel/QT means that the n900/n910 devices will be a development dead-end, then I will persuade myself to skip these devices and hope for a more succesful device class in future, but i do not want to do this because i want to buy an Omap3 NIT as soon as they are available.
it would be very useful if Nokia clarified whether or not Harmattan will come to the n900/n910, as i suspect that many here would happily settle for that at least.
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