Thread: Maemo Missteps, your thoughts?
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2010-06-16 , 23:30
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Originally Posted by qole View Post
My attitude at the moment is to just mostly ignore MeeGo until there's actually something compelling for me to care about. I don't care about Harmattan because it is completely intangible. I think I'm not alone.

When a real MeeGo with a full set of functioning drivers and the reference handset UI hits the Internet, I will become much more interested.

I know I can't be alone. I bet there's a huge number of capable developers and community members who are sitting on the MeeGo sidelines waiting to see what will happen.

Until then, I will just keep working on my Maemo stuff*, and learning Qt programming and RPM packaging on the side. Honestly, how can we be expected to do anything else?

* I need beta testers for the extended mimetype handler package (currently called dbus-switchboard)...
Just so you know, you're not alone--I feel the same way. Personally I think all this talk about MeeGo, and that it's not (officially) coming to the N900 is a little premature. I think the real question should be if we even want MeeGo or not. Right now, I'm not so sure I do, as it's a completely unknown quantity.

The allure of Maemo, and potentially MeeGo, for me was that I could use Linux/Gtk/Gnome programming know-how that I already had and apply it to a mobile device. That's something that is really unique to Maemo/MeeGo, and it's more or less the only reason I bother messing around with Nokia despite their flagrantly poor handling of the whole thing.

Now, I'd love it if I could get those same things with MeeGo, hopefully with some more mainstream appeal thrown in. Now that would be something I'd be interested in. But the real question is: Can Nokia actually make that happen? Sometimes I just don't know for sure...