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Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com)Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com)Posted Feb 11, 2011 10:49 UTC (Fri) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018)In reply to: Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) by xav Parent article: Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com)
It was already dead before the announcement.
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Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) Posted Feb 11, 2011 11:02 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
The thing to worry about now is Trolltech and QT. The pro-QT folks better be right on the level of portability it brings because. The principal platform for it is going to be Windows Phone 7 if it has any future in Nokia.
Sucks
What future for Qt now? Posted Feb 11, 2011 11:17 UTC (Fri) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]
Does not Windows Phone 7 / Windows 8 come with its own set of UI widgets? What is left for Qt in Nokia?
Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) Posted Feb 11, 2011 14:13 UTC (Fri) by Aissen (subscriber, #59976) [Link]
As said by rvhf, WP7 already has it's framework.
And Nokia confirmed that there will be no Qt on Windows Phone: http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/nokia-developer-news/20...
Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) Posted Feb 11, 2011 14:22 UTC (Fri) by xav (guest, #18536) [Link]
Lots of negative comments in there.
Oh, and apparently it's not just devs: Nokia's share lost 9% just after the announcement http://gadgets.ndtv.com/shownews.aspx?id=GADEN20110169247...
Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) Posted Feb 11, 2011 14:26 UTC (Fri) by xav (guest, #18536) [Link]
Oops ... right now it's -11% and counting. Good move Nokia !
Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) Posted Feb 11, 2011 19:29 UTC (Fri) by jebba (✭ supporter ✭, #4439) [Link]
Nokia had a good plan, followed up by *TERRIBLE* execution. They can't even figure out how to get their servers running properly. It's sad, because Nokia's incompetence reflects poorly on Linux.
They managed to contribute a good amount of code to Linux, but piss off everyone from low level users to high level hackers.
Their "Open Source Advocacy" was closer to "binary apologist" for proprietary software.
It is really amazing to see how fast all this unfolds and how quickly they self destruct and lose billions of Euros (literally). When the N900 came out, it was the ultimate Linux device, but Nokia totally blew the momentum. Android went from nothing to dominance. I wonder if being able to actually use functioning Google servers had anything to do with it...
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5818 <-- the beginning of the end "We need Servers"
https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615 <-- continued failure
Nokia, good riddance.
Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) Posted Feb 11, 2011 18:00 UTC (Fri) by daniel (subscriber, #3181) [Link]
<quote>The thing to worry about now is Trolltech and QT</quote>
Trolltech is long gone. There is only one possible route to go with QT: fork under a new name. Let the forking begin. This is going to be primarily driven by KDE devs.
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