Thread: Eldar and others: Nokia and Microsoft Discussing WP7
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ericsson is offline ericsson
2011-01-02 , 09:05
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#191
Originally Posted by Crashdamage View Post
@ericssson: 2 things...

1. You seem to think an OS is an OS, a 'platform' is a 'platform'. "The Bada OS in the Wave is exactly the same amount of work as a working MeeGo OS (a working kernel and a platform)." It's not so simple as that. They are not the same and so not the same amount of work.

2. You wonder why Nokia needs MeeGo since they have Symbian. Very simply, Symbian is not capable of keeping up with future demands of mobile hardware and software. MeeGo is.
1. When the end result is the same, the work getting there should be (and is) roughly the same. Discrepancies is due to bad execution, changing of plans, lack of commitment and so on.

2. Nonsense. The N8 has the most advanced HW in any mobile phone, the GPU alone is far above anything else out there right now. Symbian ran twin CPU already in the N95. Future demands for software is Qt as far as Nokia is concerned, and Symbian runs Qt better than Maemo/MeeGo right now. But again, Nokia's problem is getting the stuff out there, deliver the goodies. MeeGo has potential, but so far no one knows exactly what that potential is, other than some vague formulations about "future demands" which means nothing. I have been following Nokia and Symbian, Maemo, MeeGo. What I see is that Nokia is 100 times more committed to Symbian than to Maemo/MeeGo, and there are no indications this will change anytime soon. I'l will be one of the first to get a N9 (or whatever it will be called) when it comes, but not because I believe it will be a better phone than a roughly equivalently spec'ed Symbian device, because it won't.