Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)
Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)
Posted Feb 9, 2011 15:56 UTC (Wed) by drag (guest, #31333)In reply to: Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters) by daniel
Parent article: Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)
Whether or not it was RPM vs Deb is really immaterial.
Switching to QT was another stupid move. QT may be nicer, but toolkits matter a hell of a lot less then Gnome vs KDE ra-ra-ra crowd likes to pretend.
They had years of history shipping Linux devices using the same formula (Debian + Mobile version of Gnome). By the time N900 came out they already were well into the second generation of the OS.
They literally threw it all away to start over from scratch. Huge waste of time.
They should of concentrated entirely on development tools and UI environment from _DAY_ONE_ of Meego. That is what people actually care about.
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