On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Peter Flynn <peter.flynn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Curious. I like my N800 since I finally got everything I wanted running. > > However, the N900 clearly has some way to go before it would interest me. > I'm unclear why it was necessary to break so much that was working in OS2008 > in order to make Maemo5, although I'm sure the developers had their reasons. > > Maemo5 is clearly an experimental platform, whereas OS2008 is (now) a usable > tool -- in its turn the N800 platform was to some extent an experiment when > it came out. Maemo5 does not seem to have learned as much from the N800 > experience, though, which is a pity. Maybe in a few years I'll be able to > afford an N900... > > ///Peter Maemo4 is fine as long as you don't want to do anything serious or are capable of writing your own apps. All of the apps that work really well are things that you can do with pretty much *any* device (games and other fluff). The more critical apps have too many bugs and miss too much functionality; e.g. mapping apps don't navigate (contrary to one of the main selling points of the NITs), PIMs don't import/export worth a flip and/or don't support enough fields (vCard just doesn't cut it), getting root access (which is critical in any *nix system) is a PITA and never works the same way twice (meaning getting it to work again after an OS reflash -- which is periodically mandatory), and on and on. The truth is that they never really finished OS2008 before giving up on it completely and concentrating on Maemo5. Mer *might* be an option someday if it doesn't fragment and get abandoned like most other such projects. With so many more interesting devices coming along, I'm not holding my breath. Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
