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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
Seriously. Is it that hard to just say that?

I know to the Nokia faithful, my questions will be somehow foolhardily relegated to "attacking" but while Qgil is answering questions, I would love to see (from Nokia's standpoint) what they have planned to make MeeGo a viable product to those of us with so much invested into Maemo in terms of non-developers.

Sure, I mean from the technical side, Qt is wonderful. The move to *.rpm from *.deb, while argued plenty in the past just means a few changes in mindset in regards to installing things. I get that.

But on a much lower level, the consumer... what's so different? On some days, I don't want to hear lofty or overly technical terms on how something I've foolishly come to depend upon (my cellphone) can extrapolate portions of the human genome if I program it in Python and use a certain library... I just want to know what compels that company to solve some of my lesser needs.

Or why I should support them.

I'm already here. I've bought two Maemo devices. I've contemplated a third. I'm on the cusp of the Maemo to MeeGo transition and the technical side of me is still researching. The consumer side needs more reassuring.

Thus... my questions.
Read this, it might help:

http://www.nokia.com/NOKIA_COM_1/Tec...hite_paper.pdf

MeeGo OS will be more or less open, but the MeeGo devices that Nokia sells will have differentiating UI, apps and services.
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