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2011-02-13 , 15:27
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#11
Originally Posted by lma View Post
You may be assuming too much. All that was said was that "Nokia still plans to ship a MeeGo-related product", and that may end up being a netbook, tablet or even just a t-shirt.
Laughing Elop Bobblehead.
 

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2011-02-13 , 15:33
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Originally Posted by mikecomputing View Post
sooo you think that is so easy I am sorry but Meego/Qt is doomed inside Nokia. The small group behind Qt/Meego will be the entusiastsx that cant be bought by the new Microsoft maffia. Every engineers inside Nokia will probadlyy get higher money worrfking on ,NET instead.

so if you buy tjhat Meego phone it will be less functional than n900 is my guess. Microsoft would never ever let Medego get a chance compete...
the "small group" for Meego/QT is 1,800 people with a budget of 300 million EURO's a year. Its NOT small especially when most are engineers!

At that size and budget, it just reflects very badly on the group..
 

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2011-02-13 , 15:36
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btw. Meanwhile in HP webOS community:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI056nhaduk

Sounds familiar? huh? So is there any company that really gets it and is lead by community?
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2011-02-13 , 15:44
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Originally Posted by bugelrex View Post
If Nokia releases a Meego phone that can compete with iOs and Android.. it will sell.

The tech blogs will rave about it, word of mouth will spread and it will sell like crazy...

But to sell like crazy (mass market), it has to
- UI has to be buttery smooth
- the maps app like has be as good as google maps (smooth UI, 95% accuracy in search results)
- out of box apps, facebook, youtube, email, twitter, internet radio have to polished
- dev support out of the gate, docs and apps to write apps from windows, linux, mac

If its none of the above, it becomes plainly obvious why Elop had to make the swtch (i.e Nokia engineering first (who cares about usability) culture simply cannot be changed)
Meego != Nokia

To it become successful it needed all partners across all plaforms where Meego is designed:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo_%...ser_interfaces
But it was not in Nokias hands. Others expected that Nokia first creates critical mass of devices and then others join in on developing apps on interface that suits their needs. I would like to have app that I´m able to run in car, tv, desktop pc and on my handheld device. It´s true that this is pretty much jump in dark, but to be succesfull you have to sometimes take risks.

I don´t understand why people just look strictly smartphone and desktop OS´s when we should be talking much much wider and bigger range of devices.
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2011-02-13 , 15:48
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Originally Posted by slender View Post
btw. Meanwhile in HP webOS community:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI056nhaduk

Sounds familiar? huh? So is there any company that really gets it and is lead by community?
....

well since you "get" it, then why dont you put money down, start a company and have it be lead by the community. Money talks but BS walks.
 

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2011-02-13 , 15:52
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The general mood I get here in Finland is that people won't be buying any Nokia WP7 devices. Nokia lost it's soul on Friday. It's dead now.

I would rather give my money to another company making MeeGo phones to prove Nokia wrong. Those AAVA devices are looking pretty attractive now.
 

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2011-02-13 , 15:57
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Originally Posted by Frappacino View Post
....

well since you "get" it, then why dont you put money down, start a company and have it be lead by the community. Money talks but BS walks.
A. I do not have that much money
B. My managerial skill are not good enough
C. I do not have enough knowhow about what it takes to start company on this area

And I just asked simple question that is there company like that? What kind of BS I´m talking? Just asked question.
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2011-02-13 , 16:18
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#18
Originally Posted by slender View Post
Meego != Nokia

To it become successful it needed all partners across all plaforms where Meego is designed:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo_%...ser_interfaces
Look how successful the first iphone was. No partners, no experience in phones, only basic apps and many features missing.

They simply released a phone which was innovative, slim, looked sexy and was crazy easy to use.

You build an innovative product which is way ahead of competitors. Here's an example list:
- finger print login
- solar panel on back combined with 'ultra' low consumption mode. I.e 1hr of solar charging = 5 mins of calls only.
- crazy long battery life
- crazy facebook integration and market it as a 'facebook phone'
- almost no bezel with perhaps a 'virtual software' bezel when holding the phone
- need keyboard. E7 form factor
 

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2011-02-13 , 16:23
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#19
I won't buy the phone to prove anything. I will buy it just why I bought my N800: it is a nice hardware and does the things I need. I'll buy the MeeGo phone as long as the hardware is good (ie no unglueing usb connector and no flimsy hinges) and it has all the good things about Maemo (possibility to boot alternative systems, ability to run stuff like python scripts and compile whatever you want)

BTW, if Nokia releases a MeeGo phone why would you be proving that Nokia is wrong by buying it? You will prove that Nokia is right in releasing the phone. It's the same Nokia...
 

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2011-02-13 , 16:43
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#20
With all due respect, Apple, who released the iPhone, had tons of money, market share, experience and all necessary subcontractors on hand. Slender apparently has none; so we better appreciate his concern and be fair to him. It is quite simple: MS smartly eliminated very dangerous competitor by planting (or later “buying”) Elop at Nokia! I love my n900 and believe Nokia has made a futile mistake. However, we can protect Nokia from itself even less than Autonomous could protect WikiLeaks from big players. I am afraid the best option is to start drumming into android platform players shortcomings of their platform in comparison to N900 and MeeGo and help them bury both MS and Nokia by providing bigger market share for their improved phones to satisfy demands of N900 users. Google is certainly in better position to do what Nokia does not want t and we cannot do alone.
 

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