• bitofhope@awful.systems
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    3 days ago

    That’s Symbian, though. Nokia managed to launch a grand total of two or three Maemo/MeeGo phones (N900, N9, maybe another one I forget) before Elop killed it in the crib. It would have been one thing if the Burning Platform meno had been about S60, but it wasn’t.

    Being basically just a Qt-based DE on a pretty standard RPM-based Linux distro (much much more so than Android, even at the time) Meego had a low barrier to entry into application development and a rather stable and mature API to work with.

    Then again, if you “don’t think the company had the mentality to offer that” I guess you’re right in the sense that the alleged trojan horse CEO killed the platform before it had the chance to gain any traction.

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      3 days ago

      Yeah, Symbian really was quite a thing. It was insanely optimized for memory and battery, but was nightmare to code.

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      3 days ago

      FWIW, maemo still lives… Jolla released their C2 phone which runs the maemo-descended sailfish OS about 6 months ago. I don’t know anything about it, other than its existence, and that it doesn’t have the N900 form factor 😔