Originally Posted by Crashdamage

Not necessarily. Win 9x became a lost cause due to inherent limitations and early design decisions that doomed it. The same kind of basic design problems are limiting Symbian now, and I think will limit Android and iOS down the road. From what I see MeeGo is the only mobile OS powerful and capable enough to keep pace with mobile HW for the foreseeable future.

1.1 is already useful for some purposes, but Handset isn't there yet. Probably more like a Handset UX 0.5.

Originally Posted by me2000

Here is the release timeline I am commenting from.

Originally Posted by Stskeeps

I think there's room for both, but I've been asking around about borrowing some build time to do a ARMv6+VFP build. And today while I was in transit I've spent time researching how to do it properly.

It seems like there's some awesome kernel work ongoing in the OpenWRT project, so that's covered..

Originally Posted by SD69

I'm not sure about the room. Or about probability of success for MeeGo adpatation.

Originally Posted by me2000

I love how the initial Meego 1.1 plans included marketing efforts (http://wiki.meego.com/Release_Engineering/Plans/1.1) and was supposed to occur on October 21st, 2010 and that has come and gone without any comment, let alone a marketing effort.

And now the release is being called a "platform". (http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=1691)

Would one really need a marketing effort to release a development "platform" ?

Who does Nokia think its fooling here ?

Does anyone understand the concept of release early and often ?

Why don't they pare down the system to the bare essentials (basic calls, phone charging, etc.) and SHIP so that people can at least start using it to get the bugs out ? Right now everything is being developed simultaneously and nothing works. They are trying to do Big Bang development and that NEVER works.

It took a long time for USB devices to automount in Fedora. It shipped without that functionality and people accepted that. At least there was a Fedora. Right now there is no Meego.

So here is my advice to the Meego team. Take whatever you have that works and ship it as TESTING. Strip out everything that doesn't work. After 2 months of user use and bug fix releases, call that subset of functionality STABLE. Then you will have a code base to start building from.

This business of shipping without calls working and without battery charging working is BS. That is the base functionality of what the phone has to do. Without that, it isn't a phone !

Forget SMS. Forget apps. Forget everything except the very smallest set of phone functionality. Get that stable, put it in testing and SHIP it and provide some support resources so that people start using it and it gets tested in end user hands.

Right now you have a mess. You have tons of code being worked on. Nothing works. Nothing is stable enough for any of the end users to test. You are missing shipping deadlines. You are pushing deadlines back. And the market is running away from you.

Also, please recall MeeGo.com is not equal Nokia MeeGo.

Originally Posted by Laughing Man

Err..considering the unsatisfaction people have with Maemo and the N900 how on earth is that a good idea. It'd only work if Nokia sold the device to people who applied to be beta testers.