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fatalsaint is offline fatalsaint
2010-06-30 , 22:01
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Originally Posted by mrojas View Post
Not gonna happen. So, let's say Nokia release a MeeGo device and you buy a LG phone, but don't like the UI, so you take the Nokia UI and put it in your LG phone? I don't think it is going to be fair for the vendor; because it's the precise the UI where they invest cash and want to be different. It may be possible (like the HTC Sense UI being ported to other Android devices); but I don't think it will be supported.

What should happen is that you could replace without major problems, the vendor UI for the generic UI we have just seen.
Again, I feel it depends if the Vendor releases their UI to the public.

So if Nokia releases a MeeGo device with UI X, and LG releases a device with UI Y, but both Nokia and LG keep their UI's closed - then yes, not going to happen.

If Nokia releases MeeGo device with UI X, and releases UI X out to the open, then LG releases device UI Y... You should be able to replace UI Y with UI X. It's all MeeGo.

Supported or not is different.. will LG Support support you with a Nokia UI? Probably not as they won't know the UI to even help you. But it should be possible to load.

Now, replace LG and Nokia with Open Source developers/names (not companies, just random joe on the internet) - and the same thing should be possible. Say we end up with UI A B and C from the public for MeeGo then both devices from Nokia and LG should be able to load those 3 UI's as well should the user want.

But again.. the restrictions will come into how closed the devices themselves are; and how the security framework will work with MeeGo.
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