Moblin + MeeGo + LiMo + Titzen = Intel's demise

Posted Sep 28, 2011 14:07 UTC (Wed) by kragilkragil2 (guest, #76172)
In reply to: MeeGo + LiMo = Tizen by corbet
Parent article: MeeGo + LiMo = Tizen

And rightly so.

What the hell is wrong with Intel??
Seems to be that they are run by *censored*.

Repeat after me:
People want a stable, easy, elegant, smooth, fast and cheap phone OS. Meego could do all of those(see N9 reviews) With HTML5 you can scrap most of those attributes.
I'll better stop because Intel is just a bunch of lying MBAs like most other companies, they seem to do everything marketing says(Just like crippling netbooks or going for Mhz(P4))
What makes me sad is that the LF goes along with this nonsense. They should be held to a higher standard.
This HTML5 pipedream has been proven wrong so many times I think I don't have to elaborate on LWN.

What a bunch of *censored*

Moblin + MeeGo + LiMo + Titzen = Intel's demise

Posted Sep 28, 2011 17:00 UTC (Wed) by ajross (guest, #4563) [Link] (1 responses)

I think you have to be a little careful when pronouncing what "people" want. There are a lot of people. Using a DOM/JS ("HTML5" is mostly a buzzword) layer as the public UI layer isn't a terrible idea to my eyes. Really, the Qt/QML stuff being pushed for MeeGo is a very close technical cousin. And it has plenty of performance problems of its own. At least with DOM coding there's a huge pool of existing developers ready to jump in.

I think the bigger worries are, as detailed in other comments, that we're all of a sudden back to square one with this. MeeGo and Moblin both had flaws, but either could have evolved into a nice platform. Platform development takes time, and these projects never seem to get enough of that.

Moblin + MeeGo + LiMo + Titzen = Intel's demise

Posted Sep 29, 2011 6:28 UTC (Thu) by kragilkragil2 (guest, #76172) [Link]

Problem is that "huge pool of existing developers ready to jump" mostly includes people for applications of a very limited scope.
IMO this has FAIL written all it.

BTW Will the AppUp store now be renamed TitzUp?