Re: Why MeeGo (On the Netbook and Tablet) Will Succeed Where Other Linux Distributions Have Failed
 

Handset UX will no doubt have huge uphill battle ahead of it.
MeeGo tablet UX in a other hand is something i think got some real potential right from the start to be a hit and that would be great thing for handheld UX as well.

I usually hate the it's too late like of comments where some product beats another for 3 weeks and it's supposedly doomed because of that, but i would hate to see MeeGo tablet UX being beaten by something like Android 3.0 so there wouldn't be real room for MeeGo tablets after both Android 3.0 and ipad.
It just needs a company that can actually build some hype behind their hw.

As a side note i haven't really heard anything about the tablet UX in recent time. What's exactly the schedule for it?

Re: Why MeeGo (On the Netbook and Tablet) Will Succeed Where Other Linux Distributions Have Failed
 

Which kind of beats me as to why Nokia is not getting behind the Tablet with MeeGo Table UX much more strongly.
Recently their Sales or something VP said that they are not looking at the Tablet market as this junctture - which makes sense in terms of organising their device portfolio - but business wise I think this has a much bigger potential for them to put their stamp on.

I thought the Tablet UX experience was a very refreshing change from whats on the market and has quite some potential - no Nokia not riding this boat seems stange. That doesn't mean other companies can't take it and run with it.

Re: Why MeeGo (On the Netbook and Tablet) Will Succeed Where Other Linux Distributions Have Failed
 

Yes the tabet UI is very mysterious. There is no Meego Tablet UX at meego.gitorious.com, not even a placeholder. We don't know precisely who is develloping it. We don't know which library they use (Qt, gtk/clutter ...). We don't even know if it will be open sourced...

I hope we will have a "tablet UX" day one and then open devellopment...

Re: Why MeeGo (On the Netbook and Tablet) Will Succeed Where Other Linux Distributions Have Failed
 

Supposedly this is a pre-alpha build of Meego Tablet UX:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqeeQd-YNL0

Re: Why MeeGo (On the Netbook and Tablet) Will Succeed Where Other Linux Distributions Have Failed
 

Define success?
User adoption?
Whole of life support and redundancy?
Commercial viability?

I would suggest that there's a few *nix variants out there that already meet any/all of the above.

As far as I can see, and this is not in any way trying to diminish the value and effort of the community supporting it,, Meego has started off as a commercial venture and will live or die according to it's ability to sell devices. Like Android, Symbian, and for that matter IOS, it is a consumer driven OS with one purpose. to make money for the people investing in it's development (Intel and Nokia et al)

The fact that it's based on an open source OS, and has a degree of portability across a number of HW platforms doesn't make it special, just an evolution from an OS that only managed to get out onto the market on 1 device......

Re: Why MeeGo (On the Netbook and Tablet) Will Succeed Where Other Linux Distributions Have Failed
 

The fact that its an Open OS is supposed to be the value proposition to Nokia and Intel's business partners.

If you thought its only the community which is excited about the openness because they can tinker with the code you are dead wrong.

With an closed os (like iOS) the partners of Apple dont have any stake in it - except to push boxes loaded with iOS.

With an open OS they get a stake in how they wish to build around the core OS and what value propositions they can bring to the table to differentiate their hardware/services. Thats is the REAL value of an open OS.
Thats is what the commercial players have realized they need to do - to make a platform more acceptable and more penetrative - and hence make more money for them and which might have escaped you.

I think, its exactly that which makes it special - that a single base OS can be ported to different HW with vendor custiomizations and differentations from competitors. The fact that right now its only on 1 HW is doesnt take away that fact. The same OS can drive different categories of HW. That is yet to be seen on any OS (except Android to a very limited extent).