The name is a name, I think Nokia sounds stupid but you just accept it. And half the names that people like AMD and intel come out with for their CPU's are daft, they are just words. But some just click on the conscious like pentium and google. So who knows in a year or two.

Branding however is a complete package and the name is everything. Meemo isn't off the ground for most none techies and now they have to try and redo all that work from the start to make people get the new name. Lots of none techies know of Android, and Ubuntu, but few know of Meamo, fewer still of moblin (I didn't until the merger)

Personally I can see the writing on the wall and Meego won't be here in a year or so. It is a desparate act by two large companies trying to compete with the big boys, and the way they handled it on their own doesn't inspire confidence that merging will see any larger uptake. They are not concentrating on fixing the first thing, so I doubt the second thing will be better. Just look at MS for examples of a large company throwing money and rebranding at a bad product. (Bing, MS live, MS search, MS home server, Vista, windows mobile, etc etc etc)

What do I know, I just work in the industry, more knowledgeable people are out there.

They ARE the big boys, and everyone elso try to compete with THEM^^
the second thing (meego) gets everything and everything better from the first thin (maemo), so I know the seconde thing will be better.

And change the order of the letters
you get
Gaeemo

replace the G with an M, and remove the 2nd "e".

Thats it ! A nice name.

This reminds me of the time when Nintendo announced that their next console is going to be called Wii. Many thought that it was an awful name and the working name, Revolution, should have been used instead. I, too, thought that it was a silly name at first but not anymore.

So I guess every name takes a while to get used to.

I also preferred Windows Longorn over Windows Vista. Now I prefer Arch Linux.

That makes no sense.

Your name Ahmed360 do you resemble a 360?

You see what I did there, spewed random gibberish ... and for the record my name isn't MoJo, that is an internet monicker just as I presume Ahmed360 is not your official name.


Back to the name scheme, MeeGo is not a marketable name. Also my remarks about Intel wasn't on the Intel corporate brand, but the Intel products ... amongst them Pentium was a good branding, and you know what the name was a marketable name. But that is not all they sell, their product line consists of chips who have a name thats just a sequence of numbers ... these aren't brand stables, they are changed often what we go by are product reviews and benchmarks, or it came with our computer/ laptop. Intel is a juggernaut in there own field, really some of their products are there that need no branding because it is the only viable option. Also the Nokia brand is good, it stands for a dependable product. But the product brands is where they are weak at.

Choosing the name "MeeGo" has succeeded in at least one aspect - Generating discussion about the product, as evidenced by this thread.

I agree..I think it's the laziest name that two stalwarts of the electronic and mobile phone indutries could think of.

What's wrong with MaeMo (maemo + moblin) :-)

I LOVE the tags!

"meetrollin & meeflamin" -- rofl

I'm almost with you. May take a few more months.

I really just wonder though if "MeeGo" was tested on some focus groups...