Thread: A Competing OS
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Originally Posted by Aisu View Post
Hm... What if we no longer need Nokia's OS?

Ubuntu Mobile looks like it would be amazing, and I seriously doubt that they wouldn't bother compiling it for ARM.

This would be... so amazing to have a truly open system on the Internet Tablet line, and Nokia could put more time into hardware instead of listening to us ***** about their crappy software. Hm... my take is that the UI is really going to sell it.
I personally think that this is about the only thing Nokia could do to save the platform. To just open it up and allow a more common Unix in there as opposed to the IMNSHO goofy "Hildon" nonsense along with a platform independent development environment...ahhh, dreams!