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#113
The main problem, for me, is that I can only seem to run after Nokia and its chosen path with little knowledge and so many drastic changes.

I have only been porting an application to Maemo. And I didn't have time to add any new feature to it as all the time I spent on it was on the different UIs I had to deal with.
Not to mention that the last adaptation is far for complete and, due to little time on my side (ok), I fear I won't even be able to finish it.
I'd like to trust MeeGo as I trusted Maemo and I'd like to learn Qt and C++, but I don't want to leave the Fremantle version as it is.

Of course I can't expect Nokia to change and go back and let me have my time to finish this project for Fremantle, but it would helped A LOT knowing a little more in advance what was about to happen.

The transition is drastic, I understand that. I undestand (more: I hope) it was suffered internally, that someone thought about us and said "it won't be easy for them" and I understand it was to be made.
But again, communication totally lacked.

Now it's not only Nokia that I have to worry about, it's now many more like-minded companies.
This scares me.

I want to port again my app to MeeGo and have it run on as many MeeGo UXs as possible, but it's very confused so far how this will work and this scares me even more.
(this may be due, and probably is, to my lack of knowledge of Qt and how MeeGo will support different UXs, but still.. it's very scary).

I will surely jump again on this wagon, but it's running fast and I feel I'm left behind already and it's not even started!

I am not a good writer, I only want to let you, Quim of MeeGo, that I am scared, I feel very little in the MeeGo world, whereas I felt being a bigger entity in Maemo.
I want to believe Nokia has learned, and as many say here, it didn't show this. It learned many things for sure, and you're listing them.
You're playing good with the community, but perhaps you didn't notice there are two communities here ?

The open source community (and you helped that a lot, a lot more than what Android or Apple ever did) and the Maemo Community. The latter feels confused ( I surely am ) and scared a little, and Texrat, GA, qwerty12 and others explained better than me why.
 

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