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2011-02-12 , 03:23
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Originally Posted by xxxxts View Post
I will start off by saying I am not a fan of Windows Mobile 7, at all. But I am very excited that it hit the market.

This is pretty obvious to everyone but the more OSes we have running on stable hardware the better! More competition, more choice, the end results is a better product to whatever fits your needs.

WM7 seems a lot like a demo to me, but it might have potential down the road.

iOS really hasn't come that far, they have the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch.

Android looks to be great, pretty flexible, Android is running in many phones, tablets, and even my TV has Android (Sony Google TV).

When Android was first released it was a neat platform, but is has grown by leaps and bounds very quickly. It is possible that might happen with WM7 (Microsoft has been wanting to do this for a while, look at what they tried to do with UMPC's)

I think the idea of iOS is going to be moving out soon and we will see a newer more "full computer like" version of Android moving in. And hopefully WM7 will compete, and I would love if Nokia joined the fight - but I am not holding my breath.

What do you all think?

I say only this:

Problem with Nokia go WP7 is that QT will get killed at the end when Microsoft buys Nokia!

And that will hurt OpenSOurce like hell and kill just what u say above "More OS:es the better"
 
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2011-02-12 , 03:31
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Originally Posted by mikecomputing View Post
Problem with Nokia go WP7 is that QT will get killed at the end when Microsoft buys Nokia!
Nope.
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2011-02-12 , 03:36
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Originally Posted by uvatbc View Post
Nope.
But it will become irrelevant, and that is as good as dead.
 
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2011-02-12 , 03:42
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Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
But it will become irrelevant, and that is as good as dead.
I don't understand why it would become irrelevant.
QT was relevant before Maemo/Meego. QT continues to live on in Meego and KDE. What makes you predict that it is going to be irrelevant?

See also: QT-apps
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Cue is offline Cue
2011-02-12 , 04:14
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Originally Posted by uvatbc View Post
I don't understand why it would become irrelevant.
QT was relevant before Maemo/Meego. QT continues to live on in Meego and KDE. What makes you predict that it is going to be irrelevant?

See also: QT-apps
maybe he meant irrelevant on smartphones? Don't know but I too don't mind more OSes. The problem here is it seems to be coming at a cost of less Meego resources/support.
 
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2011-02-12 , 04:30
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Originally Posted by rm42 View Post
I can't remember a company that has partnered with Microsoft and come out the better for it.
I tend to agree with that one.
 
9000 is offline 9000
2011-02-12 , 04:51
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Originally Posted by xxxxts View Post
I will start off by saying I am not a fan of Windows Mobile 7, at all. But I am very excited that it hit the market.

This is pretty obvious to everyone but the more OSes we have running on stable hardware the better! More competition, more choice, the end results is a better product to whatever fits your needs.

WM7 seems a lot like a demo to me, but it might have potential down the road.

iOS really hasn't come that far, they have the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch.

Android looks to be great, pretty flexible, Android is running in many phones, tablets, and even my TV has Android (Sony Google TV).

When Android was first released it was a neat platform, but is has grown by leaps and bounds very quickly. It is possible that might happen with WM7 (Microsoft has been wanting to do this for a while, look at what they tried to do with UMPC's)

I think the idea of iOS is going to be moving out soon and we will see a newer more "full computer like" version of Android moving in. And hopefully WM7 will compete, and I would love if Nokia joined the fight - but I am not holding my breath.

What do you all think?
People feel sad and bad over the alliance is that Nokia has turned away from open to close platform, and inevitably the resource that could be used on MeeGo development would be diverted to WP7 and its ecosystem's development.

I've some drawbacks on WP7, but I still agree with you that more choices is better. However, we don't expect N900's decedent that is the entire focus of a corporation and the industry as a whole. That's what Elop has done that upset majority of people here and Nokia's stockholders.
 
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2011-02-12 , 07:42
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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
Not to embarrass anyone, just FYI:

In the US anyway, we say "crying shame", not "cry and shame". Good try, though.
Or the correct way "cry in shame", cause Aussies are *always* correct!
 
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2011-02-12 , 07:46
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I dont see se how you get more OSes by kicking out meego and possible even symbian (in th long run) and replace this with a OS that several other vendors already use.

In my book we get fewer OSes, fewer choices.

That is bad, mkey!
 
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