[maemo-developers] MeeGo

[From: Max]

Nokia was the leader with the communicator phone, everyone wanted
since the smartphone age, nokia knows, selling hardware has gone and
acquired Qt.
the N 900 is a relaunch of the communicator. but no phone house gets it.
In the meantime we have
- Motorola Milstone and
- sony ericson x-peria 10
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/MWC-Was-Kleines-von-Sony-Ericsson-930178.html?view=zoom;zoom=1
Nokia knows, that the linux app store is sooo small and buggy, not
comparable with Iphone,
Furthermore maemo5 is not allowing to install Qt, the overslept to
bring mamemo 06 on the nokai N 900.
Then Symbian was made open source, so no meamo is needed anymore.
The rest is to merge maemo and pull off the ground for the N900, as
app developers can make apps open for symbian.
The result is a delay again and again no selling of phones, esp., the N900
The mass market buys phone in a phonehouse, not because linux is on
it. that would be a side effect to bring linux to the masses.
We need good selling phones, then this list makes sense.
Which consumer wil buy a N900 , while Qt is not installed on maemo 5,
they wait for a upgrade to mamemo 06 and now they wait 2 years for
N900 with meego.
That is the left hand pulling of the ground for the right hand. Either
nokia is a hadware manufacturer or a software geek, merging nerd
groups. Here the software developers stopped the selling succes of the
Nokia N900.
No customer will buy a N 900 with outdated mameo 05 or outdated maemo
06, and a N900 with mee Go is a pure vaporware.
Look at apple, they know product cylcus with Ipad: first without wifi
and with added 64 MB, then a G3 one, and then a size bigger and
brighter..

Nokia N900 is exactly the opposite. Each step shows : Dont buy a N900
it is not ready, we just made the website frames to fill something in.
And really, what do you suggest from intel? They are strong in
automotive, but not in the phone world. Moblin is good, but linux
phone kernel closed source? so which geeks do you want to enthusiast?
Google will buy Nokia and will show us, how a product cyclus of a
chrome-phone is scheduled..

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Johan Helsingius <julf at julf.com> wrote:
> Max,
>
>> Nokia N900 is still not available here in the phone povider houses.
>
> And why does that matter? What's wrong with getting it from
> the Nokia online store? Why do you feel the need to support
> the "old world" phone channels?
>
>> Users in the market wait for the N900.
>
> If they want one, that can of course go an buy one.
>
>> Any solution to send them one with phonehouse contract?
>
> Phonehouse contract?
>
>        Julf
>