Thread: [Council] State of Maemo, Q32010.2
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2010-12-07 , 13:24
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Originally Posted by MohammadAG View Post
IMHO, separating MeeGo and Maemo 6 will certainly make the situation similar to android/symbian, "Custom/Cooked ROMs" as they are called with have Maemo 6 apps on the N900, with the license completely ignored by those making the images.
/me nods.

Oh and as for replacing Maemo apps with our own ones, I discussed 1:1 copies of the apps (as qwerty12 has done for one of the applets) on #maemo, but it might be a waste of work/time when the apps are already there, but the source is closed.
Yeah; and - no disrespect to Graham & GPE - it took Fremantle's (closed source) calendar for us to have a calendar I wanted to use on a daily basis on Maemo. That took 4 years and ended up with Nokia having to do it.

There are so many little things necessary to get a single good polished app, which doesn't eat battery, integrates nicely, and has a decent(ish) UX that you'd have to have something so utterly broken and a lot of committed developers to focus on that one thing to replace it, IMHO.
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