Thread: [Council] State of Maemo, Q32010.2
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2010-12-08 , 23:41
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Originally Posted by lardman View Post
Well yes I agree that there are projects that will be part of the vanilla Meego release that we could (and thinking about it, really should) contribute to, but it's unclear how long it will be before there's a day-to-day usable N900 image (no disrespect to Stskeeps and the rest of the meego-arm gang, I know how hard it is to get these things working and am sorry I don't have the time to get involved)
Let me be more clear: if a Qt based popular and established community project like Amarok is planning/working on going mobile (they are) then a possibility for developers willing to have a great free media player for Maemo 5 is to get in touch and exchange expertise areas. Using Qt/Mobility/Quick on 4.7 the chances are that a lot of the effort can be recycled between Maemo, MeeGo in different UXs, KDE in different UXs and Symbian in the near future.

Originally Posted by ZogG View Post
so qqil, what would u say now, especially about We were actively discouraged from developing for Maemo any further
What do you expect me to say?

Marcin is a community contributor not related with Nokia that decided to WONTFIX his own bug.

Instinctiv is a small software company that (afaik) asked Forum Nokia for advice on where to put the constrained resources they had put in their Maemo releases. Forum Nokia explained what are the perspectives of further sales of Maemo devices compared to Symbian devices, and recommended them to focus now in Qt for Symbian as primary platform in order to maximize the return of investment. This makes business sense in the times of the N8, E7, etc. Any serious developer here being asked by someone having to pay salaries of other developers would have probably answered the same.
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