[maemo-developers] MeeGo

[From: kate.alhola at nokia.com]

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>From: maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org [maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org] On Behalf Of ext Max [petersonmaxx at googlemail.com]
>Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 8:30 PM
>To: Johan Helsingius
>Cc: maemo-developers at maemo.org
>Subject: Re: MeeGo
>
>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,

OVI Store for Maemo has just opened, it will grow. Think how big was Apple
appstore half of year after iPhone was published ? I think that it was
not existing at all. 

>Furthermore maemo5 is not allowing to install Qt, the overslept to
>bring mamemo 06 on the nokai N 900.

There has been Qt for Maemo 5 lot before even N900 was released. 
Qt for Maemo5 was releaste together with SDK beta about one year ago.

Qt has been instalable from repositories and now in MWC, we also annouced
that final Qt4.6 port for Maemo 5 is there
http://qt.nokia.com/products/qt-news-from-mwc


>Then Symbian was made open source, so no meamo is needed anymore.

Maemo is Open Source but it is also targeted to diferent device category than Symbian.

>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.

It depends a lot of market area how end users buy their device.
In some markets, like in North America most ones buy subsidized 
phone from Operators. In many others markets, they buy device
from shop and then SIM from operator.

>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.

End user does not even know what is Qt or GTK. When end user installs 
applications, they does not even know is it Qt or GTK application.
many of OVI store applivations for Maemo 5 are already Qt apps.

Kate