Thread: Ari Jaaksi Blog and "some" answers.
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attila77 is offline attila77
2010-02-28 , 20:34
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#67
Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
People are talking about - and I've stated this ad infinitum - upgrades for the fact that they just purchased a N900, have some grievances that might not get fixed simply because of the fact that Nokia has not supported their older version of Maemo once the newer version is announced.
And how is MeeGo going to fix these grievances ? We don't know anything about the API (for all we know, it might just as well lack MMS, portrait mode, Ovi Maps 3 and the rest of the Drink! items). All we know about it at this stage is that it will be package/distribution/DRM incompatible to Harmattan, with just a generic Qt link across the various devices (which is exactly what we will have with Fremantle after PR1.2).

Regarding the second point, Harmattan was announced even before Fremantle was released (and MeeGo was announced before a Harmattan release took place).


The issue with not knowing if any updates are forthcoming is that PR1.2 might just get rid of a few bugs. Might not add things that people are truly bothered about.
It has been repeatedly stated from several Nokia and non-Nokia sources that it includes Qt4.6 and the set of technologies it brings, and in fact introduces changes so big that it breaks backwards compatibility. That most certainly is not 'just getting rid of a few bugs'.

I'm still shaking my damn head how that's a bad thing...
We're running in circles. What good is MeeGo on your N900 if it turns out you cannot install a single N920/LG W990/whatever application on it ?

EDIT: spelling
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