Thread: Would You Buy Nokia Phone as Your Next Mobile ?
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johnel is offline johnel
2010-07-29 , 18:52
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Originally Posted by daperl View Post
You think so? You've been here a while but maybe you missed some of the discussion in early 2009. Here's basically how everything went and is going:
  • Maemo 4: Stylus UI based on GTK with no graphic hardware acceleration support
  • Maemo 5: Finger friendly UI based on GTK with graphic hardware acceleration support and cell phone radio support
  • MeeGo (Harmattan/Maemo 6): Multi-touch UI based on Qt; eventually Symbian compatible at middleware and/or application level.
It's an evolution with clear purpose.
If a platform is to be successful it need stability and some form of backward compatibility.
Apple understand this, microsoft understand this and as a result enjoy a healthy collection of applications.
If maemo kept some kind of backwards compatibility Nokia would be in a better position to compete. MeeGo will need to be binary compatible to allow maemo apps to run on it and judging by Nokia's past experience this will not be the case. Especially the current state of MeeGo on the N900.

If this was evolution then maemo would have remained and Nokia would have kept improving it. But Nokia haven't done this and have now reset their progress to the beginning.
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