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Maybe iteration is just too slow and results in the current project being completely outdated before it's even done.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