Thread: Official: No (commercial) MeeGo for the N900
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gazza_d is offline gazza_d
2010-05-26 , 06:10
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
So is Mer^2, so is the MeeGo implementation for N900. Simply put, the community in all of its goodness does a lot of big, huge projects that are years later a work in progress.

Mer? Dead.

Mer^2? Dead.

MeeGo for N900? Might as well be dead.

NITDroid? No movement in a while that warrants full replacement of the current OS.

OS2007HE? It was slow.

OS2008HE? It was even slower.

Besides applications, the OS support from the community - Community SSU excepted - just plain sucks for the last 3+ years.
2007HE and 2008He were released by Nokia for the 770, not the community.

I disagree with your last sentence. I think that a lot of work and effort has been put into the community OS efforts - Mer and Nitdroid in particular.

The issue is the number of people (or lack of)with the skill and motivation to get involved in a serious way to make these projects come to completion, and building a new OS able to compete and replace Maemo4 or Maemo5 is a massive task, and there are lots of bits still closed and kept by Nokia.

While the N900 will still work perfectly well, like my N800 and N810 do, I do think that it is now a dead end. I would not expect to see any more major updates. I also do would not expect to see a fully polished version of meego for it able to replace Maemo5.

Deja Vu.
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