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	Stskeeps	2011-01-01 , 21:29
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Originally Posted by gerbick

I can keep going. Nokia has said "We're committed to MeeGo, Qt, et al..." and yet have not done much more than that. The 1.1 demos are great, the community is driving most of those videos though. People putting MeeGo on a HTC HD2 or Nokia N900 is the community. The Intel based iterations, WeTab inclusive, have not been community based; however it's not ARM based... which historically Nokia has committed themselves to supporting for their handsets.

While I agree with most of this - we do need good marketing for MeeGo and I believe Quim is spearheading that effort (http://wiki.meego.com/Marketing ).

Regarding Nokia N900 videos and MeeGo, the community around the hardware adaptation (which does include Nokia employees, bunch of people from various subcontractors, me and random people contributing) does occasionally do videos.

While it might not be obvious, some of those videos (such as u-boot dual boot of MeeGo, as an example) which looked like it was published by an individual contributor, was done by motivation of the hardware adaptation team. So the community around the hardware adaptation (and MeeGo ARM community) does produce things, it's just not with company logos, fancy animations and cool marketing always.

I personally find a charm in raw, hardcore hacker videos and presentations of new technologies done without a company hat on.. but there is of course a balance to be done between that and doing marketing for customers..

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