Thread: IMO, MeeGo will be a tragedy on smartphone market like Maemo!
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-10-24 , 16:46
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#78
Originally Posted by me2000 View Post
I love how the initial Meego 1.1 plans included marketing efforts (http://wiki.meego.com/Release_Engineering/Plans/1.1) and was supposed to occur on October 21st, 2010 and that has come and gone without any comment, let alone a marketing effort.
Plans change? You could, you know, go and ASK someone who is directly involved in the project what's going on, but it seems you're content to sit here and throw stones. Try #meego and #meego-arm for starters.

And now the release is being called a "platform". (http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=1691)

Would one really need a marketing effort to release a development "platform" ?
It's always been a platform. And a marketing effort for a platform would be directed at hardware OEMs.

Does anyone understand the concept of release early and often ?
MeeGo is going to be on a 6 month cycle. But it's always open, so the release is constant (unlike say, Android, which is released when Google feels like it.)

Why don't they pare down the system to the bare essentials (basic calls, phone charging, etc.) and SHIP so that people can at least start using it to get the bugs out ?
MeeGo 1.1 can can do that -now-, last I checked.

Right now everything is being developed simultaneously and nothing works. They are trying to do Big Bang development and that NEVER works.
And your proof if this is where, exactly?

So here is my advice to the Meego team. Take whatever you have that works and ship it as TESTING. Strip out everything that doesn't work. After 2 months of user use and bug fix releases, call that subset of functionality STABLE. Then you will have a code base to start building from.
You seem content to command and control people from outside. I wonder how far you'd get if you actually started participating in the project.

This business of shipping without calls working and without battery charging working is BS. That is the base functionality of what the phone has to do. Without that, it isn't a phone !
Apparently you are wholly blind to MeeGo's progress.