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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
I don't share the same faith; however I do understand. Maemo 5 eclipsed Maemo 4.1 in all ways (almost). So hopefully the progression continues.

I see what you're saying... but I can't agree. Maemo has been around on tablets since 2005. The addition of the telephony bits should have been handled better since... well, it's Nokia.

To be honest - and mind you, I'm honestly enjoying discussing things with you, as always - I think that MeeGo is progressing nicely... but it's the avenues to get information that bother me. I would love to hear information from Nokia directly. Not by people with periphery connections to Nokia/MeeGo. Seeing demos are great; hearing from Nokia that they've kept a platform moving forward and how it will be deployed would be great.

That's no disservice to the Quim's, Texrat's et al... but the communication about MeeGo is too scattered. News about HP's take on WebOS comes from HP directly. Blackberry and their QNX derived Playbook comes directly from Blackberry.

MeeGo's communication? Random folks, random countries, random events that I hear about usually a few days before they start or after they've ended. Won't lie... perhaps I'm just looking in the wrong place(s). I don't mind shouldering that blame.

100% agree. Quoted for emphasis.

I can't consider that a full-blown implementation yet though. It's getting there, but as far as it stands, it's unfinished. I fear that if I were to review an unfinished product, I'll end up in the same boat as Eldar - much maligned and complaining about things that are "yet to come".

I love open source. Champion it daily in my work - all but Adobe Flash/Flex that is. But at the same time, the whole "design by committee" approach can yield bad results in some open source projects. All I can do is just hope that MeeGo is as embraced as I think it should be. But to assume too much right now, when all it takes is to educate folks better straight from the sources mouth (read: Nokia) then the assumptions get lesser, the anticipation gets even higher and we're more in the loop for being a community that's behind their products.

Something is amiss. It's communication. It's not anticipation.

Again, 100% agree.

I don't agree here. They're a viable player, but not one I'd say will dominate. Not yet.

And here, my friend... we agree. Thanks for discussing and clarifying your earlier statements. It is much appreciated.
I understand that you are somewhat disappointed about the lack of communication/information directly from Nokia. But this has always been the case with them. They have always chosen to speak less. That's their style. We can't help!

With regards to (Eldar) reviewing unfinished products, well, I prefer not talking about it now.

The way I understand MeeGo is that it is majorly a Nokia/intel initiative but with them encouraging direct community involvement. I could be wrong but I am guessing that it would be almost 80% of the people (including employees & contractors) that would be paid by either Nokia or Intel. This as you would agree is way better than leaving everything to the community.

Now, I still would like to maintain that MeeGo+Qt+Symbian would offer a very compelling product to both the developers and the end-users. This combination has the potential to be very big and I don't want Nokia to tamper around with this well thought-out plan of theirs.