Thread: IMO, MeeGo will be a tragedy on smartphone market like Maemo!
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attila77 is offline attila77
2010-10-25 , 08:56
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There is no reference "Linux". There is no reference KDE. There is no reference Qt. There is no reference Gnome. These are all finished products and ship as such.
Totally wrong. What you list ARE the reference starting points and DO NOT ship to end users as such. Distros ship *customized* versions of them as they are UPSTREAM. Try to download the sources from kernel.org, qt.org, kde.org, compile, and see if you get a Kubuntu in the end.

I specifically like how they named the products released thus far Meego 1.0 and 1.1. Truer names should be Meego 0.1 and 0.5 It sounds like what they are calling 1.3 will be worthy of a 1.0 number.
That I agree with.

I'm really worried that there is going to be a "reference" version of Meego that is mostly open and then vendor specific versions that contain a pile of closed source stuff that is needed to actually make things work. If that is the case, its no better than Apple or Android.
If you are after Flash, Skype et al, that is unavoidable. The other thing MeeGo can't help you with is the driver issue. OTOH the MeeGo APIs (when they get to the full extent they need to go) is a lot wider than Android's so provide less fuss if integration is needed (i.e. you don't need to rewrite half of the OS to get a customization like Sense).
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