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MWC: Intel shows what Nokia could have had with Meego
NOKIA DUMPING Meego for Windows Phone left many users and developers shocked, but an Intel sponsored demo at Mobile World Congress (MWC) shows what Nokia is missing out on.
One of the companies demonstrating the possibilities of Meego was Cybercom Group. The firm acts as a third party software developer working on the Meego operating system and was showing an impressive Meego demonstration on Lenovo's Ideapad and Le Pad tablet.
The demonstration only heightened the surprise at Nokia's decision to dump Meego and go for Windows Phone.
We'll let you decide if this demonstration of beta software on Meego doesn't look the part against Windows Phone 7, especially when you consider that Nokia wouldn't have to pay a penny in licensing fees. µ
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Thats are the FEATURES of MEEGO ?
I already have these features in ANDROID, IPAD.
YOU HAVE TO SUCCEDD OFERING WHAT N900 (MAEMO) DO.
XMPP/JABBER/gTALK VIDEO & VOICE CALL ready.
SHOULD MEEGO BE - INTERNET READY. VOIP, VIDEOIP, like N900.
I just cant understand why they spend that money making the same damn things that any other computer can do.
The truth is that OS looks crappy. Even if you think it looks reliable the facts remains that MS is a dedicated Software powerhouse and Nokia not so much, which is one of the main reasons they might have gone with wp7.
When you look at that O.S. You think that maybe they did the right thing adopting wp7.
The suggestion Nokia had no eco system is nonsense. Although English speaking predominantly American websites regularly put down Nokia handsets and the Ovi store they were actually managing recently to get it together, but did have initial issues. Also interesting to note that although Symbian was looked at as old, so is the Linux kernel and it just happens to also be at the core of Android, iOS and Meego. Symbian was however and still is a more capable multitasking Os that actually allows a phone to be used as a phone and also as a pocket pc/smart device. The move via Qt through Meego was going to be a fantastic move but then the Monopolistic MS wouldn't want any more horses in the race now would they.
Check this:-
http://wwwsymbian-freak.com/news/011/02/seven_nokia_world_records_that_will_blow_your_mind.htm
I think I will get one for this Easter...That is, IF they will sell one, and sell it at reasonable price.
Wrong. An ecosystem is not built in thin air. You need a base, Symbian and the underlying hardware has not been a good base. The first touch based Nokia phones were crap and the OS was not optimized for touch controls. Even now after 3-4 years Nokia phones use ARM v6 based CPUs.
On the other hand Symbian is an unique OS and any software developed for it cannot be easily ported to other OSes. Mobile software is hit and miss game (regardless of how hard you work, you have no guarantee that you application will become popular, it's not the PC market where you can build a name for yourself as a developer). That's way any sane developer will prefer to much more easily create an application for the more familiar *nix based Android/iOS with clear and stable APIs, unlike Symbian's which has been changed 4 times over the last 5 years.
The Qt, which Nokia started to promote about an year ago, is a good pillar for an ecosystem, but it came too late.
Qt + MeeGo + ARMv7 CPU was the true path for Nokia to go. Excellent development environment + the most potent OS for any portable device + a decent CPU to unleash the potential of these two. But they simply were too big chickens to stick to it.
Very fitting they would use "Faith No More" in their demo.
Meego or hardware is not relevant.
Relevant is ecosystem which includes apps and services. Nokia has not managed to make anything comparable to Apple or Google in ecosystems. Nokia can only try now to establish ecosystem with Microsoft and continue to be major player. If that is not successful Nokia will become one of the producers of commodity products. In philosophical terms Nokia had a choice of roads to China or Silicon Valley. It has rightly chosen Silicon Valley.