Been thinking about Maemo lately. Despite these harsh economic times Nokia still keeps hiring software developers to work on the platform. This leads me to wonder just how big the market for internet tablets really is, if they ever want this to be profitable.
No, they are probably working on a phone. Just imagine it, a phone running a platform that leverages core open-source technologies (both GNOME, freedesktop and soon QT), rather than reinventing it all (like Android does).
This would be the most awesome hacker phone around. So Nokia, where and when can I start sending you money? I’d pay lots of it and I’m quite sure I’m not alone.
Count me in !
a company has to keep on reinventing if they want to stay in the lead, or even have a role at all. Today’s advanced smartphones are the normal cell phones of the future. Nokia is future-proofing going the style we like most .. open source.
I hoped to see an new device during the MWC.
Such a phone exists today! I’m running Qt Extended on the OpenMoko FreeRunner! Give your money to a company who understands free software and is a part of the community! Don’t give your money to a company who stated Ogg is proprietary, FFS!
I recently bought an S60 Nokia phone but would certainly buy a new one running Maemo. So, another potential investor here :-)
After trying Nokia N8xx, iPhone and G1 I think Nokia is still years ahead in expertise over Apple or Google.
Guess they just want to keep the lead.
So funny, you mentioned Qt, but not KDE. However, with Qt being the future of maemo, KDE is too
> So funny, you mentioned Qt, but not KDE. However, with Qt being the future of maemo, KDE is too
Funny how you cannot see the difference between GNOME and Gtk.
I’ve had some contact with Nokia’s tablets and unless they up the quality of the app ecosystem, they have no future. It’s basically the same thing with the N series phones – and the reason why newcomers like Apple and Google were able to snatch such a big pie of the market so quickly. Third-party in Nokia sucks – big time. They need real HIG enforcement, and allow developers to break free from C/C++ and move on to more agile tools. Palm got this right by allowing Pre apps to be written in Javascript and thus tap into an enormous pool of possible developers.
@Markus: This distinction was intentionally. I have seen intent on using Qt, but not the rest of the KDE technologies. There is a very important difference between the two.