Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters) [LWN.net]

Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)

Posted Feb 9, 2011 18:28 UTC (Wed) by RCL (guest, #63264)
In reply to: Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters) by xxiao
Parent article: Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)

What's wrong with Qt? It's the sanest C++ widget toolkit available, and probably the most widely used nowadays.

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Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)

Posted Feb 9, 2011 19:59 UTC (Wed) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (4 responses)

Because it's stupid to take something that works and is shipping to customers and destroy it by starting development over from scratch for the sake of a toolkit with better C++ support.

Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)

Posted Feb 10, 2011 17:38 UTC (Thu) by jldugger (guest, #57576) [Link] (3 responses)

In my book, when you make short term sacrifices for long term gains, it's an investment.

Qt is a much broader and better lib than GTK, and will likely stay that way. And with QML, it should be possible to write apps quickly in Python and then switch to C++ to get a perf boost if needed without touching the UI. Conversely, getting Qt on Symbian, Meego, Ubuntu OSX and Windows makes it far easier to depend on Qt and customize the UI to each platform.

This logic isn't very Qt dependent, but you have to look at what's more likely to be the common denominator, and Qt seems to be it. Fortunately, there's a lot that can remain, like the Sharing stuff.

Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)

Posted Feb 11, 2011 10:22 UTC (Fri) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (2 responses)

> In my book, when you make short term sacrifices for long term gains, it's an investment.

Everything is short term. Long term success is nothing but a long string of short term successes.

This 'short term sacrifice' means that Meego is now dead.

I hope that people seriously learn the lesson here. Potential technical excellence in the future is nothing compared to having something that works right now.

QT4 being better then QT3 didn't stop KDE 4 from sucking and QT4 being better then GTK did not save Meego.

Nokia has moved officially to Windows phone 7 and will continue to develop Symbian. Looks like bad decision making is going to kill Nokia, too.

Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)

Posted Feb 11, 2011 10:22 UTC (Fri) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

I am NOT happy about this.

Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)

Posted Feb 11, 2011 15:43 UTC (Fri) by albertoafn (guest, #64225) [Link]

I dont think there is a lesson to learn here. Everybody but nokia chairmen thought this was an awful move (even people working for nokia) and they had to have continued with the maemo branch.

It was already there, it was nicer. It was working already.

I have a nexus one, but Id rather have a n900 that I would had bought if they didn't do that weird movement. n900 was one of the greates phones ive seen. Better than the nexus one. And its a couple of years old. N1 is a yeard old.

From my pov, at this point, the most sensible thing for nokia to do is accept the new king and start shipping nice android phones... As this is not gonna happen, I hope eventually meego goes somewhere, even if it copes with the same share of the market as linux have vs windows... ;)