Thread: Topic of the Day: Should Nokia Drop Meego and roll with Android?
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2010-07-19 , 17:05
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
I was talking about Android being alongside their Symbian and MeeGo offerings; not replacing it. I doubt they'd replace MeeGo already - Nokia is fickle, but not that fickle.
Putting it alongside MeeGo would defeat the purpose of creating MeeGo. Attrition would push users towards the familiar platform, and away from the new one.

Google's going nowhere, Nokia isn't in the same bracket as Google in terms of what they will offer. Nokia loves hardware, Google loves software. Even without Nokia's assistance, Google is already in a position of power; it'll take Microsoft, Yahoo or some yet to be named company to compete with them on those kinds of offerings.
The problem is that right now only Google is in a position to decide the course for Android as a platform. Even if they are not going anywhere any time soon, this lets Google dictate where the platform goes. At least with MeeGo it's tied up with so many involved parties that no one player can determine the course of the whole thing, which I think is Nokia's goal with this. They gain the benefits of pushing even more of the core development outside like with Android, without being under the Google umbrella.

Edit:

It just occurred to me. Nokia doesn't want to use Android for the same reason no one else wanted to use Maemo. It was tied to closely to someone perceived as a competitor. And in the mobile information arena, Nokia definitely sees Google's services as competing.
Last edited by wmarone; 2010-07-19 at 17:08.
 

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