Thread: Would You Buy Nokia Phone as Your Next Mobile ?
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2010-08-02 , 09:55
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Originally Posted by cmsjkung View Post
Yes, MeeGo should be better in all aspects, but we will need to buy another Nokia mobile phone again, and I don't think they will do that well in first release.....as everything will need to start again such as firmware and software improvement.

The problem is, Nokia is going to change everything when they release second version of MeeGo...just like the same story in Symbian

Really want to know why their OS and device road map is like this.... or they have already make too much and don't know how to spend it so continue to keep thing change without providing good support for existing device.......
I have lost all faith in MeeGo. There is nothing magical or different with MeeGo as apposed to Maemo. I have MeeGo on my netbook, and it is nice, although much less functional and practical like Puppy for instance, but to the point:

MeeGo is run by Intel. Intel uses MeeGo as a means to cut off the software middle man (Microsoft and others), so the whole profit margin goes to Intel. Nothing wrong with that, but MeeGo is made and licensed to be 100% open source and to be used by OEM. 100% open source sounds nice, but it is not. It means that a fully functioning MeeGo will never be released, since most HW drivers are not open source, and the MeeGo team refuse to include these drivers in their distro. For MeeGo to be fully functional (on netbooks), someone else has to redistribute MeeGo along with all closed drivers. Maybe someone will do that, but I doubt it, since the kernel is also tweaked exclusively for Atom, excluding some AMD processors. It is more likely (although still unlikely) that some will adopt the MeeGo WM (Canonical has decided not to). This means that MeeGo for netbooks is 100% OEM for all practical purposes (except for Linux enthusiasts), even though it is 100% open source. The OEM partners can include closed drivers, and closed everything for their hardware.

MeeGo for handsets has very little in common with MeeGo for netbooks, and is probably best viewed as one of those "closed" OEM versions. Why should this be better or different than Maemo? I can only see one benefit, and that is if Nokia starts producing tablets/handsets with Intel hardware. Such a device I would probably purchase.