Thread: Everyone else has caught up and Nokia has been left behind
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Crashdamage is offline Crashdamage
2010-04-24 , 13:45
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Originally Posted by daperl View Post
I think the very latest MeeGo news has changed everything. As I've said before, the n900 is a one-off. A pure transitional device.
Yeah, but I don't think it was originally intended to be at all except as a transition to adding phone capabilities to tablets. It was supposed to be step 4 of 5, continuing of the evolution of pocket computing/Maemo that started with the 770. MeeGo switched that train to a little different track.

Everyone raise their hands who think Nokia will ever use a resistive screen again in one of their high end devices.
I sure hope they do, maybe offer something like a N920C and N920R. Capacitive screens suck, but the iPhone and Android phones have brainwashed the public about them.

Now, combine (a handset) with the latest Qt eye candy. Cool, let's add in an OS. Take your pick: Symbian, MeeGo, Harmattan, LG's MeeGo, ..., etc. If Qt 4.7 can truly hide 98% of the OS from the application developer, f*ck Android. Again, with the latest MeeGo news, porting Android might have just gotten a hundred times easier. And without even knowing it, I could be a Symbian developer by this time next year.
Well, you would be a multiple OS developer. I'm no developer, but that sounds like a Good Thing to me.

There's no good reason why Nokia should throw in the OS towel at this point. Or ever, really.
Exactly. In the overall scheme of things in the mobile device world, it's still very early in the game. I agree with what you said, MeeGo changes everything. We can't imagine yet what's to come and how all this will work out in just 2-3 years, much less 5-10 years.
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