Originally Posted by Freemantle

So the average user would be reliant on the community to provide the app repositories?



I hear what you're saying but I think i'd need a little more convincing, sorry.

Originally Posted by felbutss

wow i also just heard HTC HD2 to Get Windows Mobile 7 Upgrade.


by the way. nokia will never change. nokia has always been like this. i know qt qt qt on maemo 5 but it doesn't feel the same.

RIP maemo. you were the hot girl who was a guy all along. had so much potential and a cool name.

my n900 was free so i'm not fussed. love this thing. no1 has it in australia

Users who purchase any mobile device should not buy under the assumption that they will get an upgrade to the next generation OS. While Google, Microsoft, and Apple have been generous with providing upgrade paths, that's not the norm. New software--whether it be from the OS or via third party applications--may require stronger, modern hardware and some software requires specific hardware sets that may serve to define the user experience.

Originally Posted by felbutss

anyway this is doing my head in. people are forgetting how amazing maemo5 is, not voting for apps and everything seems to have slowed down waayy to much

Originally Posted by Matan

It is very easy to convince yourself. Just ask yourself this: Nokia promise OVI maps with all features (offline search, turn by turn navigation) on Harmattan. They do not promise it for N900. Why not?

Originally Posted by DJPecu

For an average user does it really matter who puts the apps to the repos? I think not. The app developers for sure want make their apps available for all the devices capable of running them, so they will be pushing their apps to repos. And I would be pretty confident about Nokia pushing as many apps as possible to repos too to promote the Qt cross-platform capabilities.

P.S. We are getting quite far from the thread topic by now

Originally Posted by Bratag

Well ok how bout this. Qt libraries are currently compiled for the ARM architecture. We are fairly certain that the meego first device will be an ARM device. WE KNOW that meego is going to be a Qt based platform (as far as GUI/APP goes). You can already download and run Qt apps on maemo. So what we end up with is the fact that Meego will run on the same architecture using Qt which is already fully functional on the N900.

Hows that?

Originally Posted by lemmyslender

...I'm not a programmer, but what I read is that an app that is developed to run on an x86 netbook, a quick recompile and a tweak or two later, it's up and running on my N900, right? IMHO, we're talking about a netbook with maybe a similar UI, but 1024x600 screen. Depending on the app, there may be quite a bit of work converting from 1024x600 to 800x480 as far as layout, then usability becomes a question. To me, at least, this entails a lot more than a quick recompile. So to me, while I can see some benefit of QT, perhaps the "stock" answer is overstating the benefits a bit. And once someone starts thinking they may have been lead astray (even if slightly or innocently) they start questioning the rest of the points....