Thread: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
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shmerl is offline shmerl
2012-07-15 , 20:32
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#631
Originally Posted by kinggo View Post
It's impossible to have a fully open OS and to be a manufacturer at the same time and to be something on the market. Sooner or later someone will just take that and put it on some cheeper HW and that's the end.
Manufacturer has to work on hardware, providing tools to build OSes for it (i.e. either specs/open drivers, or binary drivers if specs are closed). Coupling of OS and hardware manufacturing into one inseparable mix is the worst thing in the mobile industry.