A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo

Re:A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo by holri on Thursday October 27, 2011 @09:30AM (#3162924)

Meego is just a marketing Buzzword. The N9 OS ist not a true MeeGo device anyway. Because MeeGo should be Moblin + Maemo. This Intel+Nokia adventure was a disaster. But what the N9 actually is, is Maemo + Qt. And Maemo is a mobile Debian. Nokia only said that they discontinue MeeGo. They did not say the discontinue the technolgoy behind it. They still invest und contribute a lot to Qt. And they say they are not porting it to Windows Phone.

I bet that we will see future Linux + Qt based phones from Nokia, with a different name, but similar to the N9 OS.

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Re:A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo by runn1ng on Thursday October 27, 2011 @09:54AM (#3163013)

Nokia spun off Qt as a separate project, "truly open source", and stopped owning it directly. To me, it slightly looks like they want to stop investing in Qt, too.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAwN... http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/10/21/the-qt-project-is-live/

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Re:A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo by holri on Thursday October 27, 2011 @10:41AM (#3163295)

This does not look like a discontinued project:

https://gitorious.org/~qtbynokia

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Re:A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo by Geee on Thursday October 27, 2011 @09:42AM (#3162964)

I hope so. And they have been stating it many times, but it's hard to imagine what they actually mean by it when all bets are on Windows phone. N9 OS seems to have all the attention of Nokia's head designers. Engadget just got interview with Peter Skillman on this subject http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/26/the-engadget-interview-pe...

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