Thread: MeeGo Needs Some Talking Points
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-06-07 , 20:55
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Originally Posted by mrojas View Post
"All the revolutionary open Meego systems are mounted on a custom designed frame, protected by a specially developed aluminium alloy. This alloy presents a marked improvement in mechanical properties compared to other materials available in the market; and similar alloys are used in the aerospace industry for for critical, high performance components in aircraft and rockets. Also, in the best interest of ecology, the base components of the alloy are made from 100% recycled metals."
Except that you can't say anything like that, since you don't know who is going to adopt MeeGo and what the devices they'll put it on are like.

What has to happen is people that are leading the MeeGo project need to get hardware vendors on board with it, and pressure THEM to look at what Apple is doing right and to learn from it, while trying to maintain the openness for the end-user that we want.

In the end, the hardware vendors want to become service vendors and they're trying to learn from Apple. What has to be done is to convince them that you can give people a user experience equivalent to what Apple provides without being as hostile to end users and developers that Apple is.

Originally Posted by ysss View Post
What MeeGo need is persuasive talking heads... Like Jobs.
Steve isn't just a persuasive talking head. He pushes design and aesthetics. Something that Apple really succeeds at. Simple things like not allowing the end user to see the UI redraw itself.