Thread: Gassée on Microsoft potentially buying Nokia
View Single Post
_David_ is offline _David_
2012-01-20 , 02:42
Posts: 131 | Thanked: 184 times | Joined on Dec 2011
#9
Originally Posted by stickymick View Post
Well, of course they will. That's what Steve (Monkeyboy) Balmer wants. That's why Stephen (Balmer's Handpuppet) Elop restricted the availability of the N9, effectively restricting it's sales potential, thus effectively killing off Meego.
So far we have 3(?) WP7 devices from Nokia which, incidentally seem to be available in every country (not like the N9).

If..... IF, on the other hand Nokia would have been allowed/permitted to produce the same number of Meego varients and marketed them the way they have marketed the WP7 devices, things would definitely have been vastly different for WP7's so far marginal success..
I suspect killing off Meego was part of M$'s requirements for the deal otherwise Nokia's decision looks especially stupid.

Using Android to bring people across to Meego looks like a no-brainer to me. I didn't even know Android ran interpreted code at the time so this isn't just hindsight.

That's why I have now got my eye on the Samsung/Tizen project.
I'm very very new to the scene but it seems to me that Tizen could offer $25k to the Mer/Nemo team to port Qt. Even if resultant code meant we had to jump hoops to get it working, I'm sure the community would migrate en masse.

They seem to be more focussed on getting Bada apps working though.