Thread: [Maemo 5] We need more apps! Why aren't there more applications in Ovi Store and Extras?
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olighak is offline olighak
2010-06-20 , 09:13
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#334
Originally Posted by smoku View Post
Simple answer: Never.

Longer answer:
N900 and its Maemo5 operating system is already abandoned by Nokia and is pretty much dead.
Next device from Nokia, will have Maemo6 operating system which is:
a) very different from Maemo5
b) a dead-end of Maemo operating systems, because we already know it will be discontinued in favor of MeeGo

So... None in the right mind would start developing an application for already dead Maemo5.
And none in the right mind would start developing an application for Maemo6, knowing that it's targeted for death right after seeing the daylight.

They say that we should start developing applications for MeeGo, but no one knows how, because specification is work-in-progress and kept secret.

For me the answer is simple - move to Android.
I ordered Motorola Milestone yesterday.
Yep, they´ve sort of made it clear that they´re already planning to screw over the buyers of the Maemo 6 Harmattan device that´ll come out at the years end, just as they did with the N900, and the previous devices.

Today they talk about the whole new bright future of Harmattan coming this fall. At about the same time next year they´ll talk about the bright new future of their Meego 1.2 (or is it Meego 2) device that´ll come out at that time.

Seems the N9 will be just as half-assed as the N900.