Thread: Ari Jaaksi Blog and "some" answers.
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gerbick
2010-02-27 , 22:08
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Originally Posted by ARJWright View Post
Why does the OS matter if the applications work concurrently on MeeGo and Maemo 5 devices with Qt?
It doesn't matter, until the day a point upgrade or shift means your OS is now a dead end. Then it'll matter... but then it's too late.

As it stands, Maemo 5 is an unconfirmed dead end. May happen in Qt 4.7.x or 4.8 or 5.0... without that information, the OS starts to matter once again.

If Qt is the glue, and MeeGo (formerly Maemo 6) devices are going to have significantly different hardware, wouldn't it be a smart gesture for Nokia to keep the N900 in play with updates to the Qt stack?
One can only hope. But absolutely nothing other than Qt runs on N900 so far.

Now, if Qt gets to a point where Maemo 5 can't be used as efficiently
And THAT is what people are afraid of. It's that darn simple... people don't know when Maemo 5 will stop being able to run this so-called "glue"... as it stands, it could be very soon. With it unconfirmed, no roadmap that says when... speculation will be as rampant as it is.

...a case for something like a Mer project to come that rebuilds the shell/app space in Qt to better eek compatibility and performance from N900 devices?
2 years later, Mer hasn't replaced OS 2008. And despite being hopeful; I have almost nothing to show for it.

I hear and see the fears, but for some reason, much of this seems incredibly blown way off base considering what we know about the platform and what it does and will support.
And I feel as if being too faithful without anything confirmed is quite foolish especially given Nokia's history of "stop, drop, restart".
 

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