Thread: Nokia and open source – a trial by fire
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Crashdamage is offline Crashdamage
2011-02-26 , 15:50
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Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
The main problem with that article is that it is not honest.
It may or may not be accurate, but how is it dishonest?

For instance WebOS, Palm used several years to come up with it, and when they finally launched it, nobody wanted it.
Well, WebOS itself was liked by nearly everyone. Lotsa people wanted it. It was a combination of lousy hardware, knowledge that Palm was in very shaky financial condition and a launch initially only on friggin' Sprint that held people back from putting their money into a new Palm device. It did me for sure.

Palm was sold to HP, and they have yet to sell a single phone.
Soon...soon. At least WebOS was good enough someone was still willing to buy it and invest more into it.

The problem with Maemo/MeeGo is that it is ultimately a very bad concept altogether for Nokias future OS.
Maemo/MeeGo/Symbian/Qt was an excellent concept. It's slow execution and M$ billions that changed Nokia's commitment to it.

The future consists of closed OSes, streamlined stuff, modern stuff that has one main purpose: make it easy for people to connect/use the ecosystem. Apple has walked up the path. WP will provide this, MeeGo will not.
Closed system - absolutely WP7 will deliver. M$ clearly made closed the highest priority for WP7. The rest is not yet there.

And why would a system have to be closed to deliver "...streamlined stuff, modern stuff that has one main purpose: make it easy for people to connect/use the ecosystem"? Modern desktop LInux distros certainly fit that description. Android and WebOS, though not fully open, do too.

What this mean is that very few people at Nokia believed in the future of MeeGo-Qt-Symbian
It just means that progress was slower than hoped and Nokia felt a stronger commitment to M$ billions than their own plans.

This is real:
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/featu..._smartphon.php
It's easy to poke large holes in several of the points raised there. But I have neither time nor inclination to do that here.
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