Re: MeeGo is not dead! (Or, put your money where your mouth is)
 

I've put my money where my mouth is for three internet devices now. I'm done.

Re: MeeGo is not dead! (Or, put your money where your mouth is)
 

Laugh-out-loud.

What, didn't you get Friday's memo?

There will be no more Ovi.

Ovi is finished, permanently end-of-life. From now on Nokia will use Microsoft services and Microsoft software.

This means that they will continue to use Ovi for about a year while their WinPhone devices are being designed, and after that no more Ovi and no more Qt for Nokia.

(Qt will continue just fine, only not at Nokia.)

Re: MeeGo is not dead! (Or, put your money where your mouth is)
 

Seriously .. So where is your source for their complete EOL of Symbian and Ovi services/suite?

EDIT: I'm talking about dates ...

Re: MeeGo is not dead! (Or, put your money where your mouth is)
 

The dates I pulled out of nowhere, based on their quoted schedules about when they'll release their first batches of WinPhone devices and when they want to phase out Symbian.

Re: MeeGo is not dead! (Or, put your money where your mouth is)
 

meego.com is acting weird asking password

Re: MeeGo is not dead! (Or, put your money where your mouth is)
 

You haven't been around long have you? This is the same exact position Nokia has taken with Maemo over the years. Whether or not Meego is treated like a red headed stepchild (apologies to any actual red headed stepchildren reading this) or whether it grows to something more is partially up to us, and partially up to Nokia.

I, for one, am hoping for the best.

Re: MeeGo is not dead! (Or, put your money where your mouth is)
 

Good Lord above, did you even try reading my post??

It's exactly what I've been saying in this thread!

The point is that MeeGo is an Intel project, and Intel has serious, pressing business needs as to why MeeGo needs to succeed.

Nokia's foray into Linux were only half-assed attempts at playing along with Intel, that much is clear now. Nokia never knew why or how they should approach Linux.

Re: MeeGo is not dead! (Or, put your money where your mouth is)
 

I don't see why you assume Intel can't win in price/power in mobile. They have the best silicon technology in the world -- they just need to build the right chips out of it. Maybe Medfield is that chip? Have a look here:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/14/i...ve-longest-us/

They claim to have lower active power than ARM, which would be really interesting.

Re: MeeGo is not dead! (Or, put your money where your mouth is)
 

Perhaps Nokia must downplay meego as it represents direct competition to their new partner, Microsoft. The MS deal may be meant to keep Nokia afloat while it does some internal soul searching. I would like to think (and maybe I'm just dreaming) that Nokia is still keeping Meego around so they have their own product to fall back on and put money into once their financials improve. There's no way MSFT would have partnered with Nokia in the first place if they were still externally promoting Meego as anything other than a research project with potential in the future.

Re: MeeGo is not dead! (Or, put your money where your mouth is)
 

Color me skeptical. Intel hasn't yet managed to implement decent power-management, and I don't see what changed now.

And anyways, ARM already has good power management. If Intel wants to succeed, they need to differentiate and be different.