[maemo-developers] Nokia and MS

[From: Dave Neary]

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.

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