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Well, that's a downer. I had such high hopes for Maemo/MeeGo. It just wasn't meant to be.

I do love my N900. Coincidentally, I just started getting into app development the past few weeks. No SDK for Windows or OSX? Seriously? The SDK only works on specific versions of Ubuntu? Really? It all makes sense now why the platform has been a failure.

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It's early days... it's a bit early to say that it's a failure, Maemo was never really pushed and Meego is not finished. Of course this is an ominous start. The SDK will come to Windows, thats pretty much a given, KDE works in Windows. If it doesn't, then virtual machines are not too painful, this has a chance of working after all the stack is pretty much the standard Linux stack.

This one should be the easiest for developers, your not stuck with a language or framework that is foreign, getting started should be easy.

As it is now, we haven't even got any phones running it, so of course it doesn't all work and hasn't been polished yet. Whether Nokia can survive long enough to see it through, we'll have to wait and see, I hope so.

I really don't trust Nokia. They have a systemic internal culture that thrusts engineering into the lowest possible role. The number of engineers within Nokia who would fail at the FizzBuzz problem is staggering, often in key roles. The problem is that upper management doesn't understand why that's a problem.

Their hoping that Open Source will save them from themselves I suppose, but that rarely works. As long as Nokia is largely fronting this project, I don't have a lot of faith in it's long-term viability.

I just don't.

I concur. I once spent a couple of days in Tampere "attempting" to fix a couple of serious bugs between our app and the telephony layer on a S60 device. Never once did Nokia pair us up with a hard core device engineer - I honestly don't know if they exist. I can tell you all about the fluffy product manager types and the great times we had eating Reindeer!

Or the Finnish Sauna?:)

It just wasn't meant to be.

You seem to be taking one journalist's opinion pretty seriously...

No SDK for Windows or OSX?

Forget about the old Linux-only Maemo SDK. The Nokia Qt SDK is what you want: http://qt.nokia.com

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