Thread: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
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2010-07-09 , 03:40
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
The way this topic is going... there's some rather xenophobic/extremely patriotic posts where it shouldn't even exist. There's no need. In fact, it's laughable. Some of y'all need to relax.

Regardless... should Nokia go Android? No.

Should Nokia drop MeeGo? No.

But they seriously did pick one of the worse names out there.

N900's hardware is only inferior to the newer offerings... which in turn will be relegated to an inferior status after even newer offerings. That's how gadgets go.

Too bad that Maemo is a dead-end and the only support people will get will be via a community that can't even agree on if something like a SMS being sent out via one of the closed bits and cannot be avoided (charges, et al) is a bad thing.

And besides... Google is in it for the software. Nokia is in it for the hardware. Apparently opposite sides of the fence. And only one seems to be offering updates regularly. The other, dead end once the hardware is replaced by newer hardware/CPU, or whatever excuse is in style that day.
It's the money that matters...Nokia used to sell fishing boots and Google only sold a dream to some in it's first 5 years...

Why does it have to be either or. I would be surprised if Nokia didn't have an Android phone in the wings. They sell mobile communication devices. If Android is offered it would fit very well in a mid tier category with MeeGo on the higher tiers and Symbian on the lower ones.

This is what Motorola has recently done. They didn't stop selling low tier s-19 OS phones, iDen PTT phones, or Linux based phones when they offered Android models... and their financials are looking pretty good all of a sudden.

It's all about customer demand and Android pleases many and it definitely has legs. The iPhone, not so much.

What Nokia has over Motorola and Samsung for that matter is the R & D invested in that higher tier OS. Maemo has been part of that investment. Nokia has learned a lot more than the other players as a result.

One thing is for sure though, all customers now expect more from their cell phones than POT calls. The higher tier will keep expanding and POT's at the bottom end will continue to drop off even in developing countries as network infrastructure builds out.




BTW, I also just need a small garden and good conversation. I liked that other post of yours. Very well put.
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