Thread: MeeGo homescreen - a divorce with the excellence?
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elleberth is offline elleberth
2010-06-10 , 19:08
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#7
Originally Posted by ysss View Post
This has got to be addressed. The singular view that the familiarity with a certain ui paradigm or implementation to be associated with 'intelligence' or 'superiority' in general, when the reality that I've seen has indicated the opposite may unfortunately be more likely.

You'd want true brainiacs and 'power' people out there to use and favor your platform. And trust me that most of them are not familiar with shell or maemo's interface (yet?) at this point.
thanks for all the answers

perhaps I did not make myself clear, so will try to explain

when I wrote "not that educated" was not to be offensive - I ment people who do not know and/or do not need to customize the device


there are people who need a phone which will be easy to opearte and "cool" + will have couple of good features / apps - this their key purchasing driver and that is must and... enough for them
and I believe symbian would be perfect to play that role

and there are users who need a pocketable device to play a role of ultra mobile (meaning very small) laptop
they want productivity + (as allways) nice look
customizable desktop is one of key elements of productivity (i.e. I have my "work" screen, "entertainment" screen, "communication" screen, "emulation" screen which makes device easy to operate and very productive)
and I believe MeeGo shall be for such people

there is usually no succes in being "for everyone" which usually means for... no one
the reason is that there will always be a specialized product that will be better for particular group of people than the "for everyone" device so finally every group of consumers will choose their own product (focused on their needs) rather than "for everyone" device

ps I am not a programer, I know nothing about OSs, Linux, programing etc but I want FUNCTIONALTY and PRODUCTIIVITY of PC in my pocket - that is why I love my N900

pps but I guess previous posts are right - we need to wai tand see

I have just read 2 posts about MeeGo that made me worried (one of them was from (in) famous Eldar trying to convince that MeeGo is basicly nothing special)
- if you want to make yourself nervous you may have a look there:
http://forum2.mobile-review.com/show...69892&page=397
Post From Elday Mutzarin at 23.28
Last edited by elleberth; 2010-06-10 at 19:22.