Thread: This is just not ambitious enough
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2010-02-17 , 01:30
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Originally Posted by webmok View Post

I didn't mean that 100,000 apps makes a better phone. But just take a look at Nokia as a company. It's big and really has great potential in selling lots of Nokia N900s which I believe they do, so to me it just sounds reasonable in promoting your product with more apps.. Is that so wrong? Besides Android was released Oct. 2008, but grew a lot faster in the first few months than maemo has.

I like my Nokia N900 very much, and I like the maemo. But without being a salesman I still believe that the best way to improve this phone is by delivering more programs to it.
I think the problem is that Nokia isn't supporting just maemo. But Symbian also (heck I think Symbian has more people working on it then maemo). The other issue is that maemo is limited to Nokia devices (as of now).

I think that's part of their reasoning for open sourcing Symbian and now the Meego merger with Intel. To get more hands on deck so they aren't doing all the work themselves on the operating system. Then the QT cross-compatibility allows apps developed for any of the Symbian or Meego variant OS to work on any other QT using device.

And no I don't want Windows NT 4.0. Who really wants that? It's suppose to be a (fun) phone, not a pc which I'm suppose to programme on (PyGTKEditor - wtf do I need that for?)
The maemo tablets had more of an interest to be a computer rather than a media or phone device. It's only with the N900 that you started seeing phone aspects introduced (also why it lacks alot of regular phone features). It's still more PC than a phone, and likewise the maemo OS developers have focused more on the PC aspect.

Software development wise you see a range of applications, though running a PC like environment is still a popular choice (e.g. Easy Debian)
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
They're maemo and MeeGo...

"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...
Last edited by Laughing Man; 2010-02-17 at 01:39.
 

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