Thread: The EPIC N9 anticipation thread
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shmerl is offline shmerl
2011-06-15 , 22:06
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Originally Posted by kanishou View Post
Android would have been a horrible choice, because it lacks the style and exclusivity needed by Nokia if they want to have any chance of returning to former glory.
MS's WP lacks it even more. And it's way more crippled than Android in political and technical sense. It's a totally closed platform, and MS doesn't release NDK for WP because of their monopolistic interests (thus making Qt port there impossible). Therefore the choice of WP wasn't wise for Nokia from all perspectives. If WP would have an NDK and Nokia could release a supported Qt port for WP - that would make some sense. But otherwise - no.

Originally Posted by Faustino View Post
Here's a serious question.. what will MeeGo do that WP7 won't?
Meego is open, WP is closed and controlled by MS, who has one of the worst anticompetitve practices amongst other tech companies. The benefit of Meego - do what you want.
Last edited by shmerl; 2011-06-15 at 22:14.