Thread: Elops oh s**t moment for Meego
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Vinh is offline Vinh
2011-06-06 , 02:25
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Originally Posted by geohsia View Post
You mean 3 OSes? WP7, Android and MeeGo? Or are you advocating dropping MeeGo? Nokia doesn't have resources now to be able to do 3 OSes. They could barely do Symbian and MeeGo, and you think they can take on two new OSes? No way.

Even in your analysis Symbian was going to go away. Why is delaying the inevitable a good idea? They need to focus not spread themselves out.



What future did Symbian really have? Besides catching up to where iOS / Android is today, where is it going?
If Nokia doesn't have the resources to maintain 3 OS's, then yes, they need to choose something to drop. WP7 and Android wouldn't require the same OS resources as Symbian and MeeGo, as they're being developed by MS and Google. WP7 and Android would be porting and maintenance.

I, personally, see Symbian as something intermediate for cheaper phones, which WP7 doesn't include. How does Nokia plan to address that issue, keep S40 forever? Move Symbian down to cheaper phones over time. No need to kill it... and your current source of revenue.