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

by glymor on 9/28/11, 8:38 AM with 10 comments

  • by jyap on 9/28/11, 10:15 AM

    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.

  • by sciurus on 9/28/11, 12:19 PM

    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!

  • by sschueller on 9/28/11, 10:08 AM

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    Maybe iteration is just too slow and results in the current project being completely outdated before it's even done.

  • by wildster on 9/28/11, 1:13 PM

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

  • by zobzu on 9/28/11, 1:21 PM

    It seems like a reaction to boot2gecko

  • by rsanchez1 on 9/28/11, 1:04 PM

    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.