MeeGo: Will it become the Linux iPad?

what that has to do with an ipad i'm not entirely sure.
meego is still verrry much in its infancy and has some very lofty aims.
traditionally, uncompromising foss hasn't rubbed too well with traditional software vendors.
but, perhaps, the market is more ready to embrace oss today and into the future.
and, more importantly, big business is also starting to listen.

if you want to know more, visit the site:
http://meego.com/developers

nokia is really pushing qt strongly as their language of the future.
not sure why when python and java are clearly the dominant emerging languages.
i guess if it's linux then it'll support py and java anyway...
 
murraybiscuit said:
nokia is really pushing qt strongly as their language of the future.
not sure why when python and java are clearly the dominant emerging languages.
i guess if it's linux then it'll support py and java anyway...
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QT is not a language just like GTK is not a language. It's a rather fully featured library of things ranging from GUI components to database access. It has bindings for many languages, including Python and Java.
 
murraybiscuit said:
what that has to do with an ipad i'm not entirely sure.
meego is still verrry much in its infancy and has some very lofty aims.
traditionally, uncompromising foss hasn't rubbed too well with traditional software vendors.
but, perhaps, the market is more ready to embrace oss today and into the future.
and, more importantly, big business is also starting to listen.

if you want to know more, visit the site:
http://meego.com/developers

nokia is really pushing qt strongly as their language of the future.
not sure why when python and java are clearly the dominant emerging languages.
i guess if it's linux then it'll support py and java anyway...
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I thought QT was an extended widget toolkit and not a programming language?
I must have been mistaken
 
Another gadget, another Linux.
These things are like cars, all have the same engine, just different bells-'n-whistles. ho-hum.
 
the point is that a developer now has a wider audience, users have more choice and one company has less monopoly because of the hardware-agnostic open nature of the foss platform.
the car engine analogy is a bad one. car engine design is by nature inefficient because not all models work off a common collaborative platform.
 
Possible to pick your own choice of linux distro for this? :D

So you can customize your own distro to suit your taste...
 
Possible to pick your own choice of linux distro for this? :D

So you can customize your own distro to suit your taste...
 
murraybiscuit said:
what that has to do with an ipad i'm not entirely sure.
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I think it was a figurative comparison...not a literal one: IMO the author is trying to say that Meego may be a letdown in the Linux world that is equivalent to the letdown of the iPad. Lots of bark but when it is finally launched no bite.

The Linux equivalent letdown (figuratively not literally) of the iPad which is a computing device that is unable to multi-task, play flash etc..
 
ah i see. i thought he was saying that it would enable other vendors to create products which competed in the ipad space, allowing users to do what the ipad should have. i don't see him saying that it will be a limited platform. the opposite, in fact...

The obvious advantage of this, if MeeGo gets it right, is a new generation of smartphones, netbooks and internet tablets all running a version of MeeGo. And all of them could be running the same applications. So users will have no need to switch from one application to another to do the same task on different platforms.
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anyways, it's a confusing comparison.
 
murraybiscuit said:
ah i see. i thought he was saying that it would enable other vendors to create products which competed in the ipad space, allowing users to do what the ipad should have. i don't see him saying that it will be a limited platform. the opposite, in fact...



anyways, it's a confusing comparison.
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Yea now that I look at it again I see what you mean :confused:. Especially when you look at this quote (an obvious reference to the iStore):

Applications will not be locked into one company's devices or a walled garden. Rather, we see the MeeGo ecosystem as an open frontier - no walls, no fences."
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I vaguely recall that there are a few projects for touch screen systems running ATM for Linux systems but I don't remember them being particularly stable. I don't see how MeeGo will actually result in some sort of iPad competitor. Come to think of it would you really want to compete with the iPad? It seems like a silly device to me without a real customer base beyond Apple fanbois.

I mean the whole appeal of that iPod touch and iPhone was that they were portable and relatively powerful for their size (despite the crippling "no virtual machine" policy of Apple). The iPad has none of that it is as big as a small laptop or a netbook (in some cases bigger) and doesn't do nearly as much as they do. Meh whatever.

Please note that my opinion on Apple is that unless it could convert base metals into gold I would never buy an Apple product.
 
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porchrat said:
I think it was a figurative comparison...not a literal one: IMO the author is trying to say that Meego may be a letdown in the Linux world that is equivalent to the letdown of the iPad. Lots of bark but when it is finally launched no bite.

The Linux equivalent letdown (figuratively not literally) of the iPad which is a computing device that is unable to multi-task, play flash etc..
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No, it's not that at all. Nowhere in the article does it make a comparison to Meego and the iPad. The title is just horrible and was only designed to generate page hits.
 
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