Thread: IMO, MeeGo will be a tragedy on smartphone market like Maemo!
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2010-10-24 , 17:29
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Originally Posted by me2000 View Post
Call me a ignorant, but this doesn't look like the signature of software that is ready to ship 3 days from now. To me it looks like the team is shipping untested software that has a lot of bugs.
I stand by that known bugs are better than unknown bugs. There was something about a big end user product shipping with thousands of known bugs..

Also, some of these are simply features that wouldn't go into 1.1.

Keep in mind there's a release and then based on the featureset, fixes are delivered as things go along:

http://wiki.meego.com/images/MeeGoReleaseTimeline.JPG

So, yes, there's known bugs, but some were determined release blockers and some not. The release has to go out on a fixed release schedule. No delays.

In an ideal world we would start out with a perfect platform, add features, fix bugs in those features before they make it into Trunk. But fact is: we started off a non-perfect platform and non-perfect components.

1.2's where it's at.

1.1 needs to go out to let those who'd like to build a product (netbook, handset, ivi, whatever) based on the platform to finish up their work.

1.1 is already useful for some purposes, but Handset isn't there yet. Probably more like a Handset UX 0.5.
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