If Maemo is anything to go by then nokia should adopt android for future mobile phones. There is no reason to suggest that Meego will come close to denting the penetration of apple and google. the main thing to think of is what a mobile phone is actually used for. Today it is getting info fast and easily and support for most common methods of communication ie sms mms facebook email etc. Maemo has failed on most of those points and Meego will fail because of the small audience and therefore poor app support. The n900 would/will be twice as functional in day to day use with android than with Maemo. Google is the lesser of the two evils (with the other being apple of course)

Don't base any assumptions on Maemo, MeeGo is a completely different ballgame. It shares the application base with Symbian (through Qt), and it also (for the first time) is at the center of Nokia's software strategy. I don't know how successful it will be, but I know hardly anything about Maemo applies to it.

As Niklas Savander said two days ago, "Android is run by Google, and that just means that potentially it's much more in their hands. We're not prepared to hand over our destiny to a third-party on that one."

Makes perfect sense to me.

IMO, Android will be the platform to beat, not join.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/n...blets-android/

An Android only phone is as worthwhile to me as a Win 7 phone. That is, I don't want either and have no intention of ever purchasing one, other than the G1 I bought as an early Android adopter. So should Nokia drop Meego and run with Android. First I have a resounding, "No". Secondly, do I care if they do, not really. If they do this then I just take my time, and $ elsewhere, no harm, no foul. I don't care about Nokia's prolonged existence as it isn't in my best interest to. For the fact alone that they have made a few pseudo open sourced software/hardware "experiments" they are in my favor. I don't swear my allegiance to them or any other large corp.. For instance the fact that Microsoft has donated to open source projects doesn't make me a supporter of Microsoft.

Perhaps it is in Nokia's best interest to use Android but I'm not really interested in their interests. From a personal economic view I understand why payed developers might be interested in speculating on this question. How to make bread as an open source *. I say good luck to all those attempting such employment and I hope that it becomes much, much easier in the future, though there is little sign that this will be the case. I end this by saying something trite, it's awfully important to support developers, and if at all possible get rid of big corporations. Peace!

Exactly most people will view MeeGo as just another mobile platform that has no point of existing. I mean what is the need for MeeGo why do we need yet another Linux based platform most people will think. Hey people said that about Android so we will see how the actual market performance of MeeGo is before we make judgments. I don't want the Mobile market to end up like the desktop market where there is one os that controls the entire market. So competition is good.

my 1st post in months, Nokia should drop symbian and use andriod.

been enjoying my rooted Desire with 2.2 (has 10.1 flash). Love all the apps and customizations you can do with andriod.

ps1 emu works great, just need a real keyboard for buttons

Nokia will drop Meego instead of symbian.

I'm sorry, but from reading this thread it seems that people are saying
"Hey it's another platform, it'll never have a chance because of the other major platforms dominating the market." Wft, are you the head of tesco? All snidey comments aside, how do you expect other platforms to emerge? If everyone acted like this then there would be no meamo, meego or anything!!

I just would like more options, open source options.
And people who don't abandon the platform purely because of the lack of apps/games.

This is how a platform grows!

I'm sorry for the rant.

=)

I hope Nokia just drop Symbian altogether and have one OS for all their phones. Splintered OS options almost killed Apple in the 90s. How annoying is it to get that email from the Ovi Store saying there are all these new apps, and only some work on some phones.

Stick it out with Meego and push QT with either C++ or Python with bindings as the future path for Nokia. This wishy washy direction they have at the moment will get them nowhere!

That's the point of Qt - that you can use a different OS, better fitted to the actual hardware while keeping it a single platform with regard to apps. That's already way better than what Sammy or HTC does, splitting across Android/WinMo/Bada/BREW/etc