Thread: is Meego Dead for Nokia ?
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2011-06-14 , 14:48
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Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
Talk, talk, talk. If MeeGo is such a blast, then why does it look and feel (und run just as buggy and slow) as it did 1 year ago?. Bugs are fixed, features are added, so what?
Please, don't let your hatred of Linux and MeeGo lead you into blatant lies. MeeGo is much improved beyond the state it was in a year ago (it didn't even have a GUI in June of 2010.) Not bad considering that its requirements do outstrip (slightly) the capabilities of the N900.

The point is (and this was/is Nokias night mare), it takes too long.
No, it would take time and they knew it, so they went on developing Harmattan and worked to have the same APIs across both platforms, with the goal of migrating off the Maemo base and on to the MeeGo base down the line. Of course, internal bureaucracy and Elop's plans tossed it all out the window.

Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
I think the concept and value of ecosystem is not understood - at all around here.
Here's the cold hard truth about the modern concept of a "software ecosystem": It's not about providing for your users, it's about locking them into your platform and making it as hard as possible to get away. Long ago, this would have been considered tying, and lead to corporate breakups.

Android is open source, everyone can slam Android onto their phone/tablet, but the Google ecosystem is tightly controlled by Google.
No it's not. Google barely applies controls even to the official software channels and it's making them look bad.

MeeGo is only a (hardly) working OS, but there is no MeeGo ecosystem. For that reason alone MeeGo is dead for Nokia.
Nokia, before Harmattan was thrown under a bus, was ready to develop that "ecosystem."

WP is an OS and Nokia produces the hardware. This will be a great system, but the really big thing is the ecosystem. Next year Nokia will start selling tablets and other mobile devices running Windows 8, they will be tied in to the same ecosystem, the same ecosystem as billions of PCs.
Being trapped in Microsoft's world isn't my idea of fun, especially since Microsoft wants the same level of control over these devices that Apple has over the iPhone. That's one hell of a step down from the N900, which gave me total control. But hey, it's all about catering to the lowest common denominator and corporate control these days, not about the end user and empowering them.

Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
Of course proprietary ecosystems will lock consumers into proprietary solutions, that goes without saying.
Which is bad in every way, shape and form. But hey, let's go cheering it on while the tech market is carved up into a slew of incompatible, proprietary platforms that make it impossible to get anything done (for the sake of corporate profits.)

But MS/Nokia will be much more open than Apple and much less intrusive to your privacy than Google.
If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.

Trust me, Nokia/MS will be great The news today regarding patents removed every little bit of doubt. There is no way Nokia/MS will fail.
Great, yes, if you like to be told what to do and how to do it.
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