Thread: Why MeeGo (On the Netbook and Tablet) Will Succeed Where Other Linux Distributions Have Failed
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nilchak is offline nilchak
2010-08-27 , 19:28
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Originally Posted by onethreealpha View Post
Define success?
User adoption?
Whole of life support and redundancy?
Commercial viability?

I would suggest that there's a few *nix variants out there that already meet any/all of the above.

As far as I can see, and this is not in any way trying to diminish the value and effort of the community supporting it,, Meego has started off as a commercial venture and will live or die according to it's ability to sell devices. Like Android, Symbian, and for that matter IOS, it is a consumer driven OS with one purpose. to make money for the people investing in it's development (Intel and Nokia et al)

The fact that it's based on an open source OS, and has a degree of portability across a number of HW platforms doesn't make it special, just an evolution from an OS that only managed to get out onto the market on 1 device......
The fact that its an Open OS is supposed to be the value proposition to Nokia and Intel's business partners.

If you thought its only the community which is excited about the openness because they can tinker with the code you are dead wrong.

With an closed os (like iOS) the partners of Apple dont have any stake in it - except to push boxes loaded with iOS.

With an open OS they get a stake in how they wish to build around the core OS and what value propositions they can bring to the table to differentiate their hardware/services. Thats is the REAL value of an open OS.
Thats is what the commercial players have realized they need to do - to make a platform more acceptable and more penetrative - and hence make more money for them and which might have escaped you.

Originally Posted by onethreealpha View Post
The fact that it's based on an open source OS, and has a degree of portability across a number of HW platforms doesn't make it special, just an evolution from an OS that only managed to get out onto the market on 1 device......
I think, its exactly that which makes it special - that a single base OS can be ported to different HW with vendor custiomizations and differentations from competitors. The fact that right now its only on 1 HW is doesnt take away that fact. The same OS can drive different categories of HW. That is yet to be seen on any OS (except Android to a very limited extent).
Last edited by nilchak; 2010-08-27 at 19:32.
 

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