Linked by David Adams on Thu 29th Jul 2010 17:15 UTC, submitted by Panajev
The GNOME foundation and the LiMo group announced a partnership to help push Linux forward in the consumer field. The only notice that anyone has seem to have taken is mockery. So why can someone announce some dedication to promoting open source software in the mobile space and generate no enthusiasm in the mobile space? Android.
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Between Symbian and Maemo which merged with Limo renaming to Meego, I bet Nokia is at least one vendor who will use something other than Android or WinMobile.
Yeah I see them doing that also. But that will make them a niche player. They wont have the content needed to catch up:
Apps
Streaming Music
TV shows
Books
Movies
Podcasts
etc.
Apple, Microsoft and Google have or will have all these in the near future. Not leaving much room for anyone else including RIM.
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RE[3]: ? - Nokia? - drat..t hat's right
by jabbotts on Tue 3rd Aug 2010 16:59
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Member since:2007-09-06
Limo.. Moblin.. I never did pay close enough attention to distinguish the two. Maemo blew away PalmOS from my attention span and it's been Debian or Mandriva for big boxes.
Here's hoping the lovely .debs for maemo get ported over to Meego though. Not having ruby/metasploit/kismet/scapy/ssh/GPE on Iphone or Android have been primary reasons for my disinterest in those platforms.
(of course, having finally got my hands on an N900, the N910 will be announced shortly.. that seems to be my patter so far based on N810 availability barely a quarter after my N800 purchase.)
Member since:2005-07-06
Between Symbian and Maemo which merged with Limo renaming to Meego, I bet Nokia is at least one vendor who will use something other than Android or WinMobile.
Nokia hasn't merged anything. MeeGo and Symbian are completely separate platforms. Which is part of Nokia's problem. How many platforms do they have? I have no idea. But they're not integrated. They're hoping that QT will tie it all together and keep the developers from revolting, but who knows if that will work.
Right now they have platforms that are years behind Android, iPhone, and even Windows Mobile 7 (which looks like will come out later this year).
Sadly, if any mobile company could pull off a top-notch game changing OS, it's Nokia. They just seem to lack the vision Apple had with a new way of doing smartphones, the guts that Microsoft had in throwing out it's old platform (Nokia, listening?). They have the technical acumen and the money, and even the experience.
Member since:2005-07-22
Right now they have platforms that are years behind Android, iPhone, and even Windows Mobile 7 (which looks like will come out later this year).
Sadly, if any mobile company could pull off a top-notch game changing OS, it's Nokia. They just seem to lack the vision Apple had with a new way of doing smartphones, the guts that Microsoft had in throwing out it's old platform (Nokia, listening?). They have the technical acumen and the money, and even the experience.
Sadly, if any mobile company could pull off a top-notch game changing OS, it's Nokia. They just seem to lack the vision Apple had with a new way of doing smartphones, the guts that Microsoft had in throwing out it's old platform (Nokia, listening?). They have the technical acumen and the money, and even the experience.
I don't think Nokia has to worry about being 'years behind' Windows Mobile 7, which hasn't even been released yet. There is a lot of interesting stuff going into Maemo/MeeGo and I personally think it is quite capable of competing with Android and the iPhone. For instance, it has Semantic Desktop technology right at the core with the Tracker store, which no competing platform has. The Qt toolkit is certainly as up to date and as good as anything else. They have to design some decent hardware to go with the software though, and we'll have to wait and see what they come up with.
RE[3]: ? - Nokia? - Nokia has merged something
by jabbotts on Tue 3rd Aug 2010 17:14
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Between Symbian and Maemo which merged with Limo renaming to Meego, I bet Nokia is at least one vendor who will use something other than Android or WinMobile.