Submitted by “Intel and Samsung are now confirmed to be working under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation, and with the cooperation of the Limo Foundation, on ‘Tizen’, a new mobile operating system based on Linux. Various rumours about the parties’ future plans for MeeGo and merging of plans have been in circulation, but the announcement of a new operating system was unexpected. The Tizen operating system will combine components of MeeGo and Limo with an emphasis on supporting HTML5-based applications and WAC (Wholesale Applications Community) distribution and APIs. WAC is the product of a number of mobile companies who have developed a uniform platform for mobile widgets and applications based on W3C standards.”
http://www.andrewsavory.com/blog/archives/001574.html
In order for Intel to bring other companies on board, they needed to cut all ties with Nokia and make a concession by losing Qt. But if you’re throwing out Qt, the value proposition of MeeGo needs to be reconsidered. Without Qt, MeeGo doesn’t have the rich developer story – no APIs, SDK, documentation. You need an alternative
Right now i’m so skeptical by all this mobile OS failures, but still good luck to Tizen.
Edited 2011-09-29 20:24 UTC
GNOME 3.2 is actually a pretty good tablet interface from what I’ve seen thus far. Why not just put out a Medfield/Fedora 16 tablet with full-sized ports?
It is actually pretty good with tables, but they wan’t to use it also in Smart Phones, so GNOME 3.2 is a no go for them.
I wonder how hard it’d be to create a GNOME-minishell, like the alternate Plasma workspaces for KDE, but focused on phones. Plus, if they’re working with distributions of GNU/Linux, there’ll be a lot more pressure to put all the device drivers in the mainline kernel as GPL modules.
Really, what’s up with the name? Is this after a boxer? Are they alluding to knocking out Android and IOS?
Just let this die already, all the dignity it had at once are no more!
Anyone want to explain to me how HP and Nokia, both via maverick CEOs, have manged to all but reduce our mobile OS options to Apple and Windows (again)? Yes, there is Android, but with Microsoft strong-arming hardware makers to pay royalties on Andriod (I mean got God’s sake, Microsoft gets royalties but Google doesn’t?!) That future it looking bleaker too.
It’s almost as if the the open source revolution never happened.
(I mean got God’s sake, Microsoft gets royalties but Google doesn’t?!)
Yes, perfectly outrageous. And it’s enough of a bad situation that I simply won’t buy a smart phone from any company that signs a deal with Microsoft. I was just getting ready to buy my first Samsung phone – now, I’ll look elsewhere.
Software patents are evil. The USA’s corrupt politicians are totally owned by big corporations – that is why we have software patents, not because there is any need for them. There was a time when America would wag its finger at banana republics, telling them to clean up their corruption, and I would agree. Nowadays, America still does this, but it is like the pot calling the kettle “black.” The USA is on the fast track to becoming the world’s biggest banana republic.
Edited 2011-09-30 01:38 UTC
Ugh, it seems you are not aware of all the stuff CIA did in “banana republics” to keep them down, destabilised, corrupt, with oppressive regimes, so the US population can happily have their cheap bananas made by impoverished (hence less reliant high pays and such in the first place) people?
Such stuff is happening also now, US recently influenced legislative process in Haiti so that minimal wages won’t rise too much, so the profits on Levi’s and such would fall few million less, making the shareholders – people in the general population, and/or those working on increasing your savings or retirement funds – will be happy.
Generally, politicians come from their societies, are largely reflection of them, what the society collectively chooses to promote.
… my noble Nokia N900, with the super deprecated Maemo OS, is still chugging along with various comunity updates. And I love it.
It really is fantastic. However, the community is starting to fracture with no foreseeable future devices to move to and developers leave for greener pastures. So disappointing, but I’ll enjoy it while it lasts.
I believe that we have too many right now. I think WebOS will die, Tablet OS will die, too and Bada might die. Symbian and Meego are already dead. Waste of time and resources.
If there’s any of current mobile oses that experiences super growth it is Bada. It’s the only smarphone os (besides deprecated symbian) that addresses battery life problem appropriately.
I certainly meant also ran os’es.
I was considering buying one of the few netbooks from Asus or Acer that come with MeeGo but this settles the question.
I will most likely go with Asus Transformer or Pad.
Desktop applications should be coded with proper SDKs. I really don’t understand this fad of creating desktop applications with HTML5/JavaScript.
As with all fads it will be forgotten in the next two years and Tizen will join WebOS in heaven.
This dumb thing was started by Microsoft trying to make web designers(HTML/JS) think they can do “real” programming and “real” apps too. It’s just recycling web designers.
Don’t put the blame on Microsoft for this one. They are just following the trend with Windows 8, if that is what you mean.
Nokia had WebWidgets on Symbian, Apple initially only allowed Web based Apps, Psion followed with WebOS and Google is advocating ChromeOS.
All of this happened long before Microsoft had anything to say about it.
Well, allow me to say that this trend is a dumb one. You can’t match the performance, customization and usability of desktop specific programming languages/toolkits/apis/tools. Can’t really compare HTML with C/C++/Java/C#/Delphi. However I think that HTML is suitable for designing UIs and skins, but I think also that pure XML would be more suitable.
That already exists in Gtk+. It’s called “Glade” and lets you define a Gtk+ interface with an XML file, at the price (at least with Desmume) of not being able to resize the window.
HTML as the only/main SDK is an error. I prefered Meego or even Openmoko.
I I don´t trust Intel: they keep changing their mind without reaching an usable state.
Right now they are busy with their HTML apps, but I bet they will announce the death of Tizen and the start of a new OS in now more than 2 years from now.