On Feb 14, 10:29 am, Mike Wolfson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Obviously, this whole partnership is going to take time to play out. > So any discussion now is very premature (I agree we will need to wait > to really see how everything plays out). Here's my prediction: - Nokia will drop Meego some time later this year. Intel will try to mature Meego into a tablet platform - Nokia will try to persuade developers who are invested in Symbian/ J2ME/Qt to start all over in .net. If When it comes down to starting over, developers will jump ship to iOS or Android unless they already have a presence there - We'll see startups that could carry forward Maemo (or a fresh fork off of Debian), slide in a GSM stack and a touch-capable UI, and try to lure the J2ME and Qt developer crowd. It'll depend if they get the UI and hardware right. A tall order. This could end like Openmoko - Nokia comes out with half-ass WP7 device some time in 2012. It flops, Microsoft assimilation of the sorry remains of Nokia; perhaps the investors get to break out the older handsets that still run well in Africa and parts of Asia and ride that to the beach. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
