[maemo-developers] MeeGo

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On Feb 15, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Luca De Cicco wrote:
> 
> I guess that the follow ups of this story will be very interesting.
> For starters,
> MeeGo claims to target automotive, where Intel has a very thin market
> share (if any).

Umm, perhaps you haven't seen the GenIVI consortium? (http://genivi.org) That is an automobile consortium with lots of big players. They use Intel's Moblin.

> Will Intel bend to ARM for the development of MeeGo?

I think they see the writing on the wall. Companies do not want a single vendor, architecture, programming language, etc. They want a healthy, diverse ecosystem. So ARM naturally has to be a part of it. It is a member of the GenIVI consortium BTW.

> Except for
> netbooks that ship
> Atom CPUs all the other MeeGo targets seem to be ARM devices.
> 
> Any thoughts?

This is an acknowledgement that the playing field is level. Let those who can develop, deploy, and market win. Those who try to lock you into their own platform (Apple, Google, Windows) won't be able to compete with thousands of developers, both paid and unpaid.

Jeremiah

> 
> Luca
> 
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Johan Helsingius <julf at julf.com> wrote:
>> Luca,
>> 
>>> So maemo-as-we-know will disappear and will reborn under the name of
>>> MeeGo?
>> 
>> Well, disappear probably, but sounds like parts of the maemo effort
>> will be carried over into meego.
>> 
>>> Does this mean that maemo-as-we-will-know is going to be
>> completely opensource?
>> 
>> Probably not. Seems the meego kernel is coming from the Intel
>> moblin stuff, with the user interface/Qt library from Maemo.
>> So my guess is that the UI stuff will be totally open source,
>> but nokia-phone-specific stuff might still stay proprietary.
>> 
>> No idea about what happens to "official" Nokia apps, such
>> as Ovi maps.
>> 
>>        Julf
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