Thread: Nokia and the software/hardware antagonism
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-09-16 , 15:46
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Originally Posted by ootpek View Post
Hmmm...why would they need to settle on one platform? They have been using multiple platforms for years. S40/S60/S80/Maemo. I just see Meego now coming in at the top with S60 moving down to the middle and even low end eventually.
The issue isn't so much multiple platforms but who controls them. With Symbian it's Nokia, Maemo was Nokia, and MeeGo is the Linux Foundation.

Android is controlled by Google, and WP7 is controlled by Microsoft. Both of those companies have their own motivations and locks on the system the handset vendor has to accept before they can gain the full functionality (or even use) of the OS, all of which relate to services, a key area that Nokia and other handset manufacturers are trying to move into. MeeGo comes with none of these conditions.