Thread: Quim keynote on Maemo's switch to Qt as the main toolkit
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2009-07-08 , 22:00
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Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
I'd be fascinated to know which of Nokia's competitors you think could do that, cos I'll probably go and buy a device from them; even if they haven't got the mind-blowingly excellent Maemo 5 UI ;-)
Well, I don't want to name names directly, but there are some well-known companies originating from Asia, for instance.

Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
Besides, a counterpoint (and Nokia do things Nokia's way, so this is fairly off-topic), the first two things that Palm showed off with the Pre were the device and the UI. The hardware was a bit meh (OMAP3, touchscreen, slider, yawn). But the software impressed people.
And naturally that is the idea with Maemo 5 also. Showing the device and the UI at the same time.

That is why the Beta SDK doesn't show the full UI.

Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
"Free" compared with other forms of external, expert, consultancy.
Well, yes, external consultancy costs money. But it can also offer consistency, with testing methodology, target user gathering, non-biased testers, consistent reporting metrics etc. etc. So they're not really comparative. You wouldn't replace one with the other.
 

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