Thread: IMO, MeeGo will be a tragedy on smartphone market like Maemo!
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-10-24 , 16:29
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Originally Posted by me2000 View Post
There isn't any reason for Meego to be where it is right now. It should be shipping in some form, but it isn't.
Incredible, you can integrate two previously separate OS development teams and have a functional end-product in less than 12 months? Amazing!

Nokia had access to Qt way back before it bought it. Maemo 6 should have been Qt based and the port of whatever they had done in M6 to Meego should have been child's play.
That's called Harmattan.

I bought an N900 based on the promise that Meego would ship in a usable form sometime in 2010. It now appears that isn't going to happen and I'm pissed.
They NEVER promised that.

I don't understand what the hold up is with Meego. Nokia is a huge company. Resources should not be an issue. Meego is based on Linux and Qt, both of which are basically there to use. Its not as if they are starting anything from scratch. Intel et al are helping them. Its not as if they are working alone. They have access to all the hardware documentation. Its not like they don't have the information they need.
It's not like you have a shred of insight into what Nokia and Intel are doing. They are starting from scratch. Just because the packages exist doesn't mean they'll just magically work together, and well, on the target hardware. Technically, MeeGo 1.1 is already good to go if you don't need cellular data.

Why exactly isn't Meego shipping in some form, even if its only beta ?
Because MeeGo doesn't ship, it exists. Hardware vendors ship it. And shipping beta software is a bad idea.

All you have to do is watch the developer mailing list and see that the N900 target didn't get built for a month or more to know that something funny is going on.
Bugs? Conflicts? They sure as hell aren't ignoring it, unless you're insulting the efforts of Stskeeps and many others for some reason.

I'd love to run that team. Nokia: PM me if you are interested.
I'd hate it. It's obvious you have no clue what's going on.

Also, anyone who says that MeeGo is not targeted for smartphones is being willfully ignorant.