Comment by oriolid
2 years ago
Ok, I misunderstood. I thought it was clear at that point that Meego was a dead end, but Harmattan was missing things like app sandboxing and some app store and payment related features, the package management was a mess, etc.
Its funny that things like running videos while sliding window out of screen and live task switch all worked. But somehow package management was the problem. When I developed for iOS I was shocked how non of that existed.
Seems to me they had something really nice to go forward with.
Priorities tend to shift when your whole team has already been laid off, the product line cancelled and you still have the ability to make something flashy to put on your CV (again, I wasn't there myself). And probably there were a few demosceners in the team. But to be honest, the smoothness of the UI was really impressive, and even more when you know how underpowered the CPU was compared to Android phones at the time.