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Back in the days, I thought Nokia with its Meego OS will run away with the 3rd OS title. It was an OS that was much hyped when its still in development. Thanks

Back in the days, I thought Nokia with its Meego OS will run away with the 3rd OS title. It was an OS that was much hyped when its still in development. Thanks to Elop and Microsoft we never see that happening. It was killed before it was even born. I bought the Nokia N9(the only Meego phone released) a couple of month after its launch, knowing the OS is coming to its end. The Meego OS was a very polished and well-made OS. It was smooth, very intuitive, and simply the best touchscreen smartphone experience I've ever had. Thats was why Elop and WP infuriate me so much. It was a missed opportunity. Nokia took the easy route of getting paid by Microsoft to use its OS, and that bite them in the ass. And so I'm glad that trash WP and Nokia failed spectacularly

memsom 9y ago
Old school N800/N810 owner here. Nokia failed long before the N900, let alone the N9. You had the Symbian business unit veto-ing the release of any Maemo (Meego's name before they tried to align with the other players that had a desktop OS along the same lines.) Every release was incompatible with the last.. for example NIT2006 (N770) was incompatible with NIT2007 (N800, and a bleeding edge port for N770 because som many users were upset the device got dropped) was incompatible with NIT2008 (N800) was incompatible with NIT2008 R2/Diablo (N800, N810) - this lost a massive amount of packaged software, and alienated the community. I mean, the N770 had many hundreds of packages. The N800 had a few hundred (like, half, maybe less), the N810 was getting to the point were Nokia's own repo was looking bare, and third parties were the only real support. Then the next OS version (Harmatten?) was for the N900 only. Then they were moving to Qt, even though we were promised that GTK+ would always be the UI tool kit. Nokia management bungled everything. Made supporting the device a horrible experience, and people left. I'm happy that you liked the N9, but the writing was on the wall maybe 2 or 3 years prior to that, around when the N900 appeared.
- digi_owl 9y ago
  Funny, i only recall the N900 being a compatibility break. The 770 to N810 issue was hardware performance, not platform breakage. The 770 was simply too damn hardware constrained compared to the N800/810 (basically a N800 with a keyboard, and just a single SD slot). The N900 on the other hand introduced a whole new UI, QT as the primary UI framework, and beefed up the hardware on top. Yes you could still attempt to run N900 programs on the N800, but they would rarely fit the screen etc.

memsom 9y ago

Old school N800/N810 owner here. Nokia failed long before the N900, let alone the N9. You had the Symbian business unit veto-ing the release of any Maemo (Meego's name before they tried to align with the other players that had a desktop OS along the same lines.) Every release was incompatible with the last.. for example NIT2006 (N770) was incompatible with NIT2007 (N800, and a bleeding edge port for N770 because som many users were upset the device got dropped) was incompatible with NIT2008 (N800) was incompatible with NIT2008 R2/Diablo (N800, N810) - this lost a massive amount of packaged software, and alienated the community. I mean, the N770 had many hundreds of packages. The N800 had a few hundred (like, half, maybe less), the N810 was getting to the point were Nokia's own repo was looking bare, and third parties were the only real support. Then the next OS version (Harmatten?) was for the N900 only. Then they were moving to Qt, even though we were promised that GTK+ would always be the UI tool kit. Nokia management bungled everything. Made supporting the device a horrible experience, and people left. I'm happy that you liked the N9, but the writing was on the wall maybe 2 or 3 years prior to that, around when the N900 appeared.

digi_owl 9y ago
Funny, i only recall the N900 being a compatibility break. The 770 to N810 issue was hardware performance, not platform breakage. The 770 was simply too damn hardware constrained compared to the N800/810 (basically a N800 with a keyboard, and just a single SD slot). The N900 on the other hand introduced a whole new UI, QT as the primary UI framework, and beefed up the hardware on top. Yes you could still attempt to run N900 programs on the N800, but they would rarely fit the screen etc.