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2011-06-01 , 09:18
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two TECHNICALLY incorrect point in your post:
(keeping in mind that we just express our OPINIONS and that others may or may not agree w/ the OPINIONs you expressed)
Originally Posted by kanishou View Post
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Joining one of these ecosystems has many benefits, but unfortunately requires also adopting one of the operating systems. It would have made little difference to use Android over WP7, only that WP7 in my mind is clearly the more exciting platform. While it still lacks quite a bit, it makes sense to me that Nokia and Microsoft together feel confident that they are able to get it into shape before Nokia alone would have been able to deliver both a competitive OS with MeeGo _and_ finally get their ecosystem to be competitive (not to mention convince enough developers to support this new platform, which has changed so frequently in recent times).
i think that the choice of m$ over Google (even though Google apparently offered quite some money w/ the deal) was primarily because w/ ANDroid, NOKIA would have had a much harder time getting a(-ny?) say in OS matters.
many ANDroid devices have customized UIs, but that's not what NOKIA is (primarily ?) interested in; they want to be able to add new HW features and that requires the ability to tweak the kernel, something Google seems to be unwilling to allow
(see the argument about features the ANDroid developer @ Google added to the kernel & which was not sanctioned by the kernel community...)
m$ was the only available choice, the least worst solution...

Originally Posted by kanishou View Post
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Also, if Intel doesn't like it they can shove it and we just give it a different name. What matters in the end is that in not such a long time from now, the smartphone world will be richer for one exciting open platform (this time it's no hacker's toy like Fremantle was), and one amazing device.
MeeGo is trademark of the Linux foundation; if Intel doesn't like where it is going, THEY will have to think of a new name (or exhume Moblin >:-)