[maemo-developers] Nokia and MS

[From: Dawid Lorenz]

On 13 February 2011 22:59, Jeremiah C. Foster
<jeremiah at jeremiahfoster.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 09:01:23PM +0100, Klaus Umbach wrote:
> > On 11.02.11 13:25, Demetris wrote:
> > >
> > > How does this affect the future of Maemo on Nokia's devices?
> >
> > Maemo is dead and Meego will die, too.
>
> Don't be so sure. MeeGo is a set of vertical Linux distros. There are
> other phone manufacturers interested in the Handset vertical, car
> companies in the IVI vertical, and there is some serious traction in
> the TV vertical. MeeGo is hosted at the Linux Foundation, so it has
> nothing to do with Nokia in the end.
>


That's for sure, however I definitely won't expect MeeGo evolving too much
(at all?) within Nokia from now on. There are loads of speculations floating
around since Friday and in fact we all don't know what future is going to
bring us but in my eyes by coupling with Microsoft, Nokia has effectively
killed off MeeGo internally - whether we like it or not.


>
> > Even if the community supports Maemo/Meego, there will be no new hardware
> > and one day my n900 will be broken...
>
> Nokia claims to be releasing a MeeGo device this year.
>
>
Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if that was *the last* MeeGo device from
Nokia, too.

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.

On top of that, Techcrunch speculates [1] that MeeGo device this year is
going to be *keyboard-less* N9-01 model, which makes me personally about
98.83% less interested in taking it. Having said that, I'd rather back the
community effort to bring the best MeeGo experience to N900 rather than
focusing on developing Maemo 5 further (however I appreciate that) which is
officially dead anyway and its community is only going to shrink from now
on.

[1]
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/02/12/intel-kept-in-the-dark-over-nokia%E2%80%99s-meego-plans-operators-reject-first-device/

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