Thread: Maemo 6 / Harmattan on N900?
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fatalsaint is offline fatalsaint
2010-01-29 , 19:55
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#468
Originally Posted by ZackMorris View Post
Do you really think your phone will be the rage 12 months+ past purchase? Do you think there will zero compatibility between Maemo 6 and Maemo 5, all this lament seems to come from the fact that yes, what was once new, will one day become old. Stop being so damn emo and enjoy the best mobile device on the market right now and for the immediate future(ie 3-6 months).
You're being very forgiving here. The M6 device is reportedly coming 2H2010?

Now, go through this list:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Abugs.maemo.org+harmattan

And you will see several times:
Setting
target to Harmattan only to indicate that, it considered, this is the earliest
release where we could see it implemented.
Too late for Fremantle, but we're discussing this item in regards to Harmattan.
(Too late for Fremantle?! It's been out 2 months! You can't make *any changes at all* after the phone is released? Really?)

The aim is to implemented this feature in Harmattan.
....
But no plans to change the current settings in Fremantle. There is an
opportunity for a community plugin if this is technically possible.
Etc.

Almost everything you look in there says "Version: 5.0" which is what the bug was opened against... and then "Target Milestone: Harmattan".

There's an awful lot of "enhancement" requests there that the N900 is perfectly capable of, being put off to "harmattan" - that provides absolutely no benefit to the N900 users at all. Plus, it's being pushed out, 2 months after the device hits the market!

How can that not be a *little* annoying?

As I've said before.. it's not entirely that Harmattan is not coming to the N900 that is the complaint.. it's combination of Fremantle not getting any additional features (or even some bugs fixed), and the N900 not getting the OS that *is* getting these features and bugs fixed. THAT's the problem.

If this were 6-12 months after the device was released, and THEN they started pushing crap off to the next version.. that's not so bad. 2 months? Really?
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Last edited by fatalsaint; 2010-01-29 at 19:56. Reason: changes 2006 to 2010.. evidently I travelled back in time!
 

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