Possible ways for meego to succeed.

1-Port Dalivik VM thus instantly have access to all the development happening for Android.
2-Port Meego to many many handsets and change forever the way people look at mobile phones. If every mobile can be dualbooted to meego, people will see mobiles the way they see computers and that could be very disruptive.
3-Give money outright to developers. Long shot but my 2 cents worth.

Not so fast. Current releases of MeeGo (handset) actually do not have X-term in the default apps list. You have to mess with it in a chroot first to gain access or SSH in to it.

Now.. There is a current (unless it was fixed in a more recent build than I tried) problem with the X-term that's its actually unusable anyway.. so: I'm not sure if the lack of X-term is left out by "design" (making the device "user" friendly).. or if they just moved it out until they get it working properly.

Either way.. the lack of the X-term being in the apps was/is somewhat disconcerting.

I think there's room for MeeGo, as it seems to be the most open and neutral platform. Google already has it's tentacles everywhere, Apple is becoming the new evil (Microsoft) and Microsoft... Well, it's not going to be easy for them either as it was seen with... er... Kin, was it?

However, I also think Nokia and Intel do have to push it hard from the beginning. They need EA to do FIFA and NBA11 to MeeGo smartphones, they need celebrities to go to late night talk shows to show off their latest MeeGo-überphone. They need to have huge coding competitions and be the ultimate super device in a Hollywood (and Bollywood as well) blockbuster movie (like Matrix a few years ago). And of course, queues, stolen prototypes, bloggers, free giveavays based on Twitter messages et cetera.

They just have to make open source the sexiest thing on Earth. Which it is, obviously. We wouldn't be here otherwise, would we?

Scoring EA right now would be seen as a win over Microsoft - EA is holding out on the Windows Phone 7 series OS right now, actually.

The comparisons of the tablet UI versus the handset UI shouldn't be happening. Tablet UI is based on Intel Moblin, handset is based on the continuation of Maemo. Not exactly the same.

WP7 is kind of interesting. If you would have asked me ~5 months ago about WP7 i would have said it will fail horribly. Now they actually do seem to be getting some okish selection of hw out for the WP7 launch and Microsoft is finally tying some of it's other products to WP7.
It still seem quite USA centric and WM was never much of anything outside of North America... then that might only be good thing for them. Out of the Android, Symbian, Iphone, MeeGo bunch it's not the one i want, but i can see the appeal it might have for some.

I really am not sure how will MeeGo handset ux fight against Android that's growing by the day. If MeeGo can produce this brand image of family of products(netbooks, tablets, phones) where Android has failed that could be big advantage.
Qt is still probably the key and before that MeeGo needs to have lots of appeal to get that initial push. Just hopefully Symbian is also able to gather devs for the Qt side.

I think it was from the point of view the compositor had a bug that made all non-libmeegotouch apps show as white screens

Well like I had said.. I wasn't sure if it was left out because of the bug, which meant it was useless, or by design. Half the other apps in the list don't work either.. so it didn't make much sense that they hid just this one till it worked and not the rest.

But.. if that was the case.. that's good . I was nervous for my X-term loving future

Well as for X-Term I don't see the big it would probably not be preinstalled just like the terminal emulator under Android isn't preinstalled. X-Term would probably just be a third party app. Even if X-Term isn't preinstalled let's hope the capability remains.

i guess its a win over microsoft then b/c EA announced support for MeeGo back in april

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/node/6144

http://dailymobile.se/2010/08/23/mee...00-video-demo/ has this video been posted before..sorry f it has been.

holy cow : The amount of customisability!! amazing..and from video ti seems Vsync is there >< utterwin.