Comments on: Maemo + MeeGo: The Real Story

By: James

James — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:56:22 +0000

Don’t worry about him, let him crawl back under his bridge, sounds utterly clueless about the whole platform anyway, he didn’t articulate anything which showed his in-depth knowledge about it, just the typical throwaway lines that demonstrate low IQ.

By: JollaTides

JollaTides — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:43:01 +0000

What are you talking about have you ever used MeeGo?! Skype is integrated in both the N9 running MeeGo and the N900 running maemo so you don’t even need an app because its built in!! In terms of apps, I concede, but who needs the ‘iFart’ (out of my cakehole) app you just downloaded ?

By: guido

guido — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:23:56 +0000

meego is the worst OS… no apps.. no skype… theres anybody who wants to boy an N9 ?????? i prefer a Startack

By: The Continuum Theory « Latest Jolla Mobile News

The Continuum Theory « Latest Jolla Mobile News — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:29:54 +0000

[…] Leaving all other features in place, consider a Nokia N8 or N900 in 2012 with an up-to-date processor (minimum dual core 1.5ghz) and enough RAM (1gb +), improved software with a decent sized app store (Nokia Belle is almost there in terms of apps) and you would have phones that would be very viable alternatives to the likes of iPhone. I would go further and suggest Nokia should have committed to one ecosystem early on, choosing between Maemo or Symbian (IMO Maemo) so they could have put all of their resources into making one of these ecosystems into a viable success. Expending time, energy and resources on 2 half baked ecosystems was never a good idea and inevitably led to loss in confidence and internal conflict. […]

By: James

James — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 23:34:03 +0000

I’ve said those involved at the time (who are likely to be known by many -& active- in the community) need to be outlining it all, I’ve never said “the community” knows more than those involved.
Harmattan & Meltemi were very globally distributed projects, they were everywhere BUT Finland for the most part…

By: JollaTides

JollaTides — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 22:54:49 +0000

To hear a balanced story, I think we need to hear from both Nokians primarily who were working at Nokia during this time and also the community but to say that one side has the complete story is not very objective of course. The guys who were internal Nokia folk would naturally know a great deal of what happened within Nokia. But I’m sure James is right that there were many crossover Nokians who are/were also actively involved in the community. Also, I think just to clarify, when you talk about the ‘author’, readers here need to know that you are talking about the author in the article from the link I provided and not myself just if anyone is unsure.

By: James

James — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 12:33:29 +0000

The author’s even conceded that this article is his own narrative/story, and not a precise chronological acct of what occurred.

By: James

James — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 12:30:20 +0000

The community = MANY nokians buddy, some whom I associate with & know myself.
This article’s motivated by a individual’s wish to confirm the current path as the gold standard, in that context it doesn’t matter if many little elements are off, the narrative he’s painting is more important.
He interviewed several nokians, all of them based in Finland, which means most of them were never closely involved in harmattan (or meltemi for that matter), & most of them STILL work for Nokia.
I’ll be waiting for the full narrative from those well-known to the maemo/Qt/meego community over the years, who will be in a safer place to to tell the full, & unbiased/unedited edition of what occurred.
That’s still a few years away, if ever….

By: Sander

Sander — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:29:01 +0000

nonsense. You somehow seem to think the community knows more about nokia’s internals than nokians? IMO the community itself is responsible for propagating hype and inaccuracies.

By: James

James — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 07:37:45 +0000

This isn’t “the real story”, I don’t get way it’s being portrayed as that throughout the entire blogosphere, there’s shitloads of inaccuracies…
The author supposedly had some “anonymous” devs that STILL work for Nokia, & who are only based in Finland, give some input, that’s far from conclusive/balanced.
If we had a story put together by several of the most well-known members of the maemo/meego/qt community, & their names were published alongside that article, THAT would be close to definitive.