[maemo-developers] MeeGo

[From: Carlos Morgado]

Most of the thread about MeeGo seems to be about deb vs rpm and how to
install rpms on the N900. This is kind of mind boggling.

The real question is, does Nokia have a strategy ? Is it selling the mobiles
division to Intel ? Who knows.
Nokia had Maemo5 which was 6 months away from being a product worthy system.
Nokia promptly killed all interest in maemo5 by announcing it would only be
released on an expensive toy (which I bought) and they actually only cared
about maemo6 which was going to be ReallyGood. This set them back a good 9
to 12 months.
Maemo6 release, in my opinion, was going to be a disaster. The first release
would be worse in quality than the first of maemo5. The whole maemoQt vs
symbianQt was not going to be pretty, confusing symbian developers and
annoying everybody else.

Now, Nokia traded promises of a product by promises of another product which
is just farther away down the line. What platforms will it run on ? Does
Nokia have arm kernel people ? Don't think so, but I dunno intel has loads
of x86 kernel people. The whole Qt run everywhere pipe dream is just
laughable.
This is surely a great deal for Intel. They had a nice "product" that didn't
take on the netbook market and they're bringing Nokia on board with all the
mobile expertise. What's in it for Nokia ? Another 16 months of S60v5 or
Symbian^3 phones.

Honestly, I'll won't even bother with MeeGo 'till I see products and a
decent roadmap. Meanwhile Nokia must just change it's mind, buy some GUI
toolkit in Java and decide that's the way to go, go back to Symbian or just
fold. Nobody knows.

-- 
Carlos Morgado
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