Thread: why MeeGo?
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Originally Posted by Bundyo View Post
Not because of it, but for QT. They already owned Trolltech and had a plan... I would argue about fragmentation too... You see - the whole world is fragmented - its all about choice. Or would you prefer declaring C++ a world leader and QT its prophet?
The truth is that recourses has been used to make one single device, running one single OS (Maemo 5, N900) that has a life span of less than a year. This is hardly a stable platform for any kind of development for any kind of developer within any stretch of the imagination. Then a new and better OS should be developed, based on Qt, Maemo 6. But that changed, taking a different course with MeeGo, but it shouldn't matter because the UI would be based on Qt, even though the distro is different from Maemo. Now it ends up that MeeGo for netbooks doesn't even use Qt, and probably never will. I mean, why redevelop something from scratch that unquestionably works very well as it is? it is a meaningless thing to do. The whole MeeGo thing seems completely random to me.
 

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