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	schettj	2010-07-03 , 18:50
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Originally Posted by gerbick

However... if the community can make Maemo, any iteration of it, as polished as they wish it to be; why is it not as polished as some members would want it to truly be? The problems are very minor, you can overclock it for a better experience, change the transitions... but those aren't really polishing as much as helping the platform along.

That is a question for the community. Perhaps the open source/user supported general hardware & software platform model doesn't work. People expect iPhones no matter what you tell them they are getting, and when they don't get an iPhone they whine and moan instead of collaborate and code.

To me, polishing would be...

And that my friend is EXACTLY the problem. "TO ME...." how many MEs are there, and how do we satisfy all of them? And more importantly, how many MEs are polishing, vs those who keep pointing and saying "you missed a bit over here..."

So how can this community really polish Maemo 5 when the parts that need it the most - besides Modest - are really closed?

Other then phone functionality, the platform is Linux, right? So we could write our own email client. We're stuck with the camera firmware/gstreamer interface, but that's reasonably good.

So what is preventing us from just running with it?

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