It's not a foregone conclusion that it is indeed a short-term solution in total; however let's be honest. GM, BMW and the other auto manufacturers that are using it (for instance) would not have been able to deploy a custom, from the ground-up OS with a modular/changeable UI and a steady community to back it up in months or even years.

So yeah... it shortened the dev time considerably in that application.

And let's be honest, if Samsung hadn't released their Galaxy S series as well as their other Android based offerings... they would still be waiting for Bada to come out in full-swing and no new product being produced, shown or talked about and in people's hands yet.

So... yet another short-term solution, imho.

To make MeeGo into a long-term solution, I'd have to say the underpinnings are their. Intel/Nokia is still superceded (I'm assuming here) by the Linux Foundation and ultimately it's a "distro" that means it is accessible by the public. But how that will work out from theory to actual deployment... we've yet to see. All other embedded systems have had bottlenecks in terms of control.

We'll see...