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2011-03-05 , 06:15
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Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
I agree. Stkeeps had some explanations, but this move by Nokia makes little sense. Why the N900, why not the N950? The N900 is old, by the time any usable comes out from Nokia, it will be about 2 years old. Why would anyone want to develop anything on a 2 year old device, that hardly anyone use on a regular basis anymore?
Commenting on the comment regarding Intel stuff - MeeGo API is pretty similar on X86 and ARM so getting your things compiled on ARM as well is fairly trivial with the help of OBS or the MeeGo SDK.

Also, you guys keep on forgetting that MeeGo is layered - ie, a hardware adaptation + MeeGo Core + stuff. So anything above MeeGo Core is portable to other devices. Which means any effort for one device helps the many.

You could even run MeeGo "DE" on one of the MeeGo Conference Ideapads for development purposes.
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