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2011-01-06 , 20:52
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I rather liked the article and have very little by the way of criticism. Although there's much I wasn't involved in and don't have personal knowledge about, the main gist of the article is appropriate and correct and I can at least attest to witnessing the soul-draining, confidence-killing discommunication and disgraceful dismissal of the community that Nokia seems to actually pride itself on.


Originally Posted by mikecomputing View Post
Android/Iphone was first done for mobile formfactors only. Then it is "hacked" to get it work on Tablets also...
How is it "hacked" to work on tablets? I'm genuinely interested to know what the difference between a tablet and any mobile handset really is. For that matter, what qualified the 770/N8x0's to be called Internet Tablets? I would argue that there wasn't anything done to Android to make it work on tablet devices any more than work was done to get Windows to run on both desktop PC's and tower form factor PC's. The guts in the tablets are pretty much the same as the handsets, only with a bigger screen.

Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
I remember when BeOS had 64-bit journaling and the best media file system on top of a kernel based OS, a terminal, native C++ compiling. Hell, I bought r4 and r5 - and still run it via VMWare.

And yet... it died.
Oh God, I loved BeOS. I had r4 and r5 as well. I had great hopes for Haiku, but I don't see it ever coming to full fruition. I hadn't even thought about it, but you're absolutely right to bring that operating system up as a parallel to the Maemo/MeeGo history in many ways.

Originally Posted by cfh11 View Post
Android is a poor comparison. Remember Android was practically a completed platform when Google bought it whereas Meego is being built from the ground up.
Yes! I agree! Let's all forget that Maemo ever happened. Amen!
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