Comment by varajelle
2 years ago
> Elop was right about needing to change horses.
What was wrong with MeeGo?
The memo just states:
> at this rate, by the end of 2011, we might have only one MeeGo product in the market.
But that's not soo bad considering that they started the platform in 2010.
It's not like changing to a different platformbat this point would make things faster anyway.
> What was wrong with MeeGo?
The way I remember it was that at the time the management-forced merge of Maemo and Moblin to Meego and the sudden switch from Gtk to Qt were thought to be risky moves and it was well known that Symbian supporters are doing anything they can to sabotage other platforms. Later I was told that N9 was incredibly polished but Meego wasn't that great behind the scenes and would have required massive rewrites if development had continued (which isn't that different from stories about early iOS).
> N9 was incredibly polished but Meego wasn't that great behind the scenes and would have required massive rewrites if development had continued
That was probably because N9 didn't really use MeeGo - technically it was still a Maemo based system that was only disguised under MeeGo brand.
The version of the story I was told that the Maemo/Moblin mashup was just as bad as the idea of combining two different frameworks that do essentially the same thing sounds like, nowhere near production ready, and the Harmattan aka MeeGo-branded Maemo with Qt was the only way it could be made to work at all. I haven't heard anyone say that genuine MeeGo would make things better.
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Can somebody explain what Maemo and MeeGo means here?
I remember the N900 coming out and wanting Maemo.
Then years later when I didn't care anymore I MeeGo peaked my interest, but I didn't really care anymore.
What other then GTK vs QT is different.
And why was it needed, I never understood why they simple didn't go forward with Maemo.
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