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Meego is being subsumed by Tizen (LiMo, Samsung and Intel)

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This is a pretty bad way to abandon a project.

They didn't mention Qt once in their announcement despite Meego including a: Easy to use, flexible and powerful UI/app development environment based on Qt

Just read the comments to feel the anger of the developers. It is just really disrespectful to obviously not address/acknowledge the concerns of your own developer community. Shame.

I'm glad I'm not in that boat.

From GTK, to QT, to HTML5. I'm noticing a trend here- spend several years developing a platform, and once it is starting to show some promise switch toolkits and restart from scratch!

Maemo -> Meego -> Tizen

When will this end and we get a 'finished' product instead of starting from scratch again and again?

Maybe iteration is just too slow and results in the current project being completely outdated before it's even done.

It's worse than that. Maemo was a complete, working system, with pretty damn nice dev tools, multi-paradigm, multi-language, with several devices on the market, each iteration bringing huge improvements. It had a living, active community that kept on building cool stuff. Meego had a single half-hearted device release and hardly any support for developers, other than what the maemo community could provide. And now Tizen is all-vapor, no community, no code, and seems to restrict development into an html+js model, which, while nice for some people, alienates all other forms of development. Also, no device support (intel and samsung are muttering that they'll do something with it, but nothing to show so far) and no future perspective. The Tizen website does not mention meego (or maemo) once, signaling again it's more of a departure than a continuation.

So every "iteration" has ended up with a smaller community, less devices, less substance, less support and less perspective. I miss maemo.

Well, as I have written in other comment Harmattan =! MeeGo. Nokia has started shipping N9 yesterday - you can still have your maemo.

P.S. N950 is great as well but it is quite hard to get one I guess :)

Well. You are wrong:

Maemo (Nokia) -> MeeGo (Intel + Nokia) -> Tizen (Intel + Samsung)

Nokia N9 - technically is Maemo still or not complete MeeGo. I guess we lack Nokia's point on Tizen. As well Nokia was more worried shipping Nokia N9 during those days (shipping started yesterday).

Here is explanation that Harmattan is Maemo 6: http://wiki.maemo.org/What_can_we_realistically_expect#I_am_...

When someone other than Intel is steering the ship.

Canonical, can we get some help here?

I hope that Canonical fork Meego so it can live on in some form.

It seems like a reaction to boot2gecko

Samsung wanted webOS, but they didn't want to pay for webOS, so they go to Intel and persuade them to dump Meego to build "a web OS". I remember reading somewhere that Samsung was interested in "a web OS". Instead of going to the OS that has a million devices, start from scratch for cheap. Great.

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