Only if they get on Verizon's BING deal with Microsoft. Then they'll finally have the Android-killer:

BADA-BING

here were a discussion before you started acting stupid.

using Symbian and/or Maemo is like warming yourself in Mammoth stool. Both are pretty much the same, but one is sterile, and the other one will get you a nasty disease.

I think you're missing a

*cough* Maemo *cough*

so if the name changes, harmattan isn't anymore maemo? care to be more spesific in which point it stopped being maemo and started being meego?

(the upgrade path from m5 to m6 had smaller probability to succeed than getting meego to n900 atm)

Yeah, if wishes were fishes... no one is going to nearly monopolise the market like MS managed, not Google, not Apple and not Nokia either.

Unless they screw something up badly, MeeGo compliance means everyone else's MeeGo devices are potential Ovi customers too.

February 16th 2010

Personally I think he was spot on, if a little short of the mark. The concept of a company nailing their colours to Android can also be to make profit, sell phones and get a brand going. A brand people want, because lets face it HTC have done it, Samsung have done it and Motorola were nearly done before Android came along.

Nokia might want to think about that as they continue to sit in their dark little places, silently playing with their many many phones and poor OS'. People, the ones with cash, the customers, want to spend money on cool stuff with apps, phone deals and hardware that works all the time. If Android works and it takes the heat away from a company who can then just make good hardware. Well then you get profit and your shareholders are happy, there is no customer back lash and you don't look like a failing mess of a company.

If that is a short term gain and long term loss then I think it is working for them. Maybe it is time for Nokia to pick one of the thigns they suck at, hardware or software and concentrate on that, because the N8 is pushed back for a better UI experience (youtube shows it to be sh*t) and the N900 sank. Not many of their high end phones are coming out the door with "Great" attached.

And now this morning there is an advert from 3 in the UK to win one of the "really exciting windows 7 phones", another OS for phone makers to buy into but one from a much larger company, MS, in terms of branding and customers. Very good news for customers, not very good for Nokia or it's shareholders. Afterall MS are all about the OS and learned the hard way (Vista, Winmo 6) what is good, they are not hardware manufacturers so that short term gain is looking all the brighter for those hardware makers out there who just do hardware.


Oh god what a horrible thought. People really want OVI as their app store?

I always wonder what would the state of hardware and software be if, say, OS/2 had it's way. Would hardware development be slower/more expensive ? Would being multiplatform be more important and tools more standardized if we did not have a single dominant MS/PS world ? Many things to ponder about over a beer