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Re:Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Af... by seba_dos1 on Monday July 13, 2026 @06:07PM (#48899557)
They had no developers familiar with these Microsoft APIs as Windows Phone was starting from scratch with new APIs that were incompatible with neither Win32 nor WinCE/Windows Mobile. The only thing that could save them that they were betting on was that these new APIs were also made available on desktops, but were pretty much ignored by developers there as well and ended up largely replaced with an even newer set of technologies.

Compare that with Maemo, where both GTK+ and Qt were first class citizens and which had an army of developers familiar with Unix and X11 before Maemo even existed.

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Re:Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Af... by mjg59 on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @05:42AM (#48904280)
GTK wasn't a first class citizen in Meego.
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Re:Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Af... by seba_dos1 on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @12:49PM (#48909645)
Never claimed it was.
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Re:Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Af... by mjg59 on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @01:46PM (#48910494)
Nor was it in the final versions of Maemo, if you want to be pedantic.
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Re:Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Af... by seba_dos1 on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @02:12PM (#48910888)
Nor was Qt in its first versions, but how is this adding value to the conversation? Both of them were first-class in Maemo 5 and that's when the developers were clearly being attracted to the platform which is what I was talking about above. Harmattan was already DoA.
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