Thread: IDC thinks Android will eat Maemo, nom nom
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jaark is offline jaark
2010-01-28 , 16:44
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Originally Posted by Sopwith View Post
jaark, do you want to compare Nokia and Google? True, Google don't have a large presence on the smart phone market, but they are just starting...
Nokia is a much bigger company than you think.

Also, what is this stuff about the "core Windows kernel"? I think that comparing hardware and software companies is flawed logic... Instead of Windows, you should say MacOS.
I was pointing out how flawed your argument about number of companies 'investing' in the android platform was. By 'investing' I took to mean having a direct role in producing so that would be Google, HTC and amsung (maybe a couple more smaller players) vs Nokia. I was pointing out that the number of companies directly involved does not really factor in many circumstances.

Do you all think that Nokia would be where it is on the smartphone market if it had a single phone model for each Symbian version?
Each model does have an almost unique version of Symbian, with things customised and optimised for the individual device. There is nothing in Nokia's history to suggest that major Maemo versions will be unique o a particular hardware release - that wasn't even the case with previous NITs, the 770 had several OSs (and then the community supported 'Hacker Edition') as did the N800 and N810.

This is the first iteration of moving Maemo onto this class of device. I'm pretty sure that they went through similar rapid development and growing pains when they transitioned their high-end phones from whatever they called the software that ran the 'feature phones' to Symbian based smartphones.