Thread: I don't get what the big deal is with MeeGo or the N9...
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2011-02-14 , 02:40
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Originally Posted by xxxxts View Post
So I have been on maemo.org since I purchased my N900 the week it was released. It seems to me that everyone was all pumped up on MeeGo and the N9 and I NEVER understood why.
Because it was supposed to be an actual transition away from a skunk works project in Nokia to being the premier platform.

What is the big deal about MeeGo? I doubt it will be anywhere near as open as Maemo 5
Out of the gate MeeGo is more open. Nokia's "value-add" stuff would be closed, but it would be possible to build stock MeeGo and the device would work.

it won't be as mature as Android/iOS.
Nonsense. Android is a black hole in terms of open source efforts, and critically bound to Google. iOS is Apple only.

Was I the only person who bought the N900 knowing exactly what it would deliver?
No, but we always want more, and better.
Last edited by wmarone; 2011-02-14 at 02:45.