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The Wizard of Huz is offline The Wizard of Huz
2011-06-09 , 22:25
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Originally Posted by Helmuth View Post
I don't know why it's not possible for such a big company like Nokia to have Series40 for phones, WP7 for low feature "smartphones" and MeeGo for hi-featured and expensive mobile devices.
  • LG has Android and Windows Phone
  • Samsung has Android and Windows Phone

They are all betting their horse on different systems. But I ask why?

Only the companies with their own system betting on just a single system like BlackBerry, HP (WebOS) or Apple. And even Samsung is developing their own system called Bada.
I ask why does they need this effort if they are earning so much money with their successful Android Devices?

Any Ideas?
Basically they don't trust their software supplier. If they put everything on one OS then the OS maker gets too much power.The hardware manufacturors then don't have control anymore about their devices roadmap.
Like now is happening with Android. The latest Android is only available to device makers who play nice with Google ( see also why Motorola had to stop using Skyhook). The other manufacturers have to wait. That is how "open source" works @ Google.
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