Hi, Hämäläinen Kimmo wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 13:07 +0100, ext Nils Faerber wrote: > ... >>> I am very sceptical about all that and don't really buy that >>> "redefintion" of MeeGo within Nokia as a "learning platform for future >>> disruptions". Even if it somehow survives within Nokia as a side project >>> for geeks, it won't receive serious support, just as Maemo never did. > > I heard Intel is still working on future MeeGo devices.
Yes! I imagine that Intel will also be happy to see Atom chips in smartphones in the near future, and will be happy to see a good clean reference smartphone UX available. The question is whether we'll get one, and whether Nokia will open up all of the UX & app work they're doing on top of the MeeGo stack once the device is on the market. If that happens, and anyone can take MeeGo & put it on a phone in the same way they can with Android, the handset UX has a small but fighting chance. My understanding of Nokia's position, put simply, is "We don't think there's a future in MeeGo on smartphones, but we're not sure, so we're going to hedge our bets and keep our hand in." Also, "we signed a big partnership agreement to do MeeGo, and backing out of it now would cost us a ton of money. We'll do the minimum that the partnership requires." On the other hand, I still don't find it interesting to talk about Nokia's MeeGo strategy, but I *do* think it's useful to discuss the post-Elopocalyse MeeGo strategy. Cheers, Dave. -- Email: dne...@maemo.org Jabber: bo...@jabber.org _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
