Hi,
On 09/30/2011 01:35 PM, Dayo wrote:
On 09/30/2011 12:28 PM, Andre Klapper wrote:
On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 12:22 +0100, Dayo wrote:
If there are - as you say - no differences between MeeGo and Tizen
Dave did not state that.
He certainly implied it as an "encouragement" to others to leave MeeGo
and join Tizen. Not sure why you would pretend otherwise.
I asked what I think is a reasonable question. Why is anyone emotionally
attached to MeeGo, rather than Tizen?
To answer your question: It seems to me like Samsung did not want to be
seen as taking Nokia's hand-me-downs, and preferred to rebrand. I'm
guessing that Intel felt that adding a top tier handset partner to the
project was worth the PR hit they are taking for abandoning "Yet Another
Dead Mobile Platform".
I'm also guessing that a certain number of people suggested that if
MeeGo's market was:
* people interested in open source platforms on cool mobile devices
* vendors looking for an alternative to iOS which would not have them
depending on a single supplier (Google) which also owns a direct
competitor (Motorola)
* 3rd party developers looking for a new market
that the move to Tizen would be at worst irrelevant (they're both "open
source platforms"), and at best an improvement (HTML5 vs QML).
Another added advantage: MeeGo 1.3 was, I hear, below quality and
running late. By moving to an SLP based platform, MeeGo gets an existing
platform that's actually shipping in devices and has been proven to
work. Of course, this advantage also comes with challenges: parts of SLP
were closed, and moving to it will result in significant investment in
MeeGo being dropped.
Anyway - I have no special information about how the discussions went
down, but if I were in the room, those are some of the things I would
have been saying.
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Neary
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