Originally Posted by Jaffa

It was a joke: "tmo" is an abbreviation of talk.maemo.org which has been used a number of times.



<joke>As they're not aware of talk.maemo.org, I can forgive them their obvious oversight.</joke>

Originally Posted by chlettn

Quite frankly, current tablets were neither fish nor meat. Too small to be really useful as a productivity device, too big to be taken whereever you go. And by now, they really just don't stand a chance as dedicated web-browsing devices against the newest smartphones which combine good enough web browsing with a ton of other features in a package just small enough to fit in a jeans pocket (which the current tablets certainly don't).

Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles

They consistently make idiotic decisions about the hardware that goes against most of the use-cases existing users have.

Originally Posted by ragnar

I'm a Maemo guy, not a devices guy. (I do care deeply about devices too, but that's another topic.) I like to talk in general terms, so I'll continue doing that.

I've said it over many years and I'll continue saying that Maemo is not about any single device but about a software platform, eventually running many different kinds of devices. Just like any other software platform wants to do. From my perspective as an UI designer I'm interested in the limits of scalability: how much can the devices vary while still running essentially the same software.

Scalability is hard to build into the UI and the software. But any one particular screen size is a really poor competitive advantage or a differentiating factor. Say 3" or 3.5" or 4.1" or 5" or 6" or whatever is your preference. It's a very poor differentiator because it doesn't take much for any competitor to buy the same display component and throw it into their device. I'm sure a company like Samsung or Archos already has one device for every of the previously mentioned screen sizes. There is only a finite amount of display component manufacturers in the world, we're all using the same components basically.

Now, naturally you can do a small device targeting certain use cases and a bigger device, better suiting other use cases. Then again, the more variation you have between devices, the harder it becomes to do the actual software for these devices.

Therefore I haven't, and I still don't really see Maemo being about "big" displays - or "small" displays. If the secret sauce would be 4.1" display, everybody would be doing it.

I've used a whole bunch of touch devices, from the Nokias 7710, 770, N800, N810, 5800, N97 etc., as well most of the known touch competitors - you know their names - and I don't see that whether a given device is using 3.1 or 3.5 or 4.1 or whatever is in the top 3 most important factors of overall usefulness or usability or desirability of that device.

Me, pretending to be a consumer, like rather small and slim pocketable devices, but that's just me. I'd cautiously say that I'm with most consumers on that one. I do believe in form factor evolution insofar that the general market and the general range of devices from Nokia and from the competitors try to match the general preference of what consumers actually want to carry and to use.

Originally Posted by Peter@Maemo Marketing

In regards to usability of applications, anybody reading the Hildon Interface guidelines in Usability Principles we published with the beta SDK?

Originally Posted by Peter@Maemo Marketing

Here is a little quote: "A mobile device is not a desktop nor a laptop computer. The screen size is an obvious and big difference. Small size screens make the experience of interacting with an application really different from a standard computer screen.

Originally Posted by sachin007

Just give me an announcement that we have tablet like devices running maemo and this whole thread will stop right now. I promise.

Originally Posted by ragnar

Therefore I haven't, and I still don't really see Maemo being about "big" displays - or "small" displays. If the secret sauce would be 4.1" display, everybody would be doing it.

Originally Posted by mullf

And if there isn't going to be one, then just let us know that there isn't going to be one.

Originally Posted by YoDude

...and besides Jaffa, if the initials did stand for us, wouldn't they be TmO instead?

Originally Posted by sjgadsby

[In response to: what do you use the Tablet for?] Web browsing, email, and Twittering via Mauku mostly. The calculator and Password Safe see occasional use. I've used Wayfinder Map a few times. I'm a dedicated user perhaps, but not a power user, I suppose.