Thread: One BIG Difference between Maemo 5 and MeeGo
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-11-18 , 01:12
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Originally Posted by lanwellon View Post
I feel that Maemo 5 is very advanced on many aspects.

More like a desktop OS.
Which is awesome for gadget and computer geeks that like to tinker. Not so much for everyone else, as the market littered with unsuccessful tablets that ran Windows goes to show, along with the bashing WM6.5 and the like got.

What I see about MeeGo is that MeeGo came to look like Android/iPhone.
Well, it is the Handset UX after all. Keep in mind that, moreso than Maemo 5, we can customize MeeGo. Load a different window manager and desktop environment and you're good to go.

But what I want to say is that as a phone OS, Android/iOS is several steps ahead. More apps, more developers.
Which is a function of time, they did not appear overnight. And this is why Qt is being leveraged, the Qt SDK is on par with other development SDKs. The MeeGo SDK needs work, but already the availability of QEMU environments is at least on par with what Android offers, and things are only getting better.