1. Backed by big players like Nokia and Intel. In the past smaller companies who really didn't know how to push other distributions of Linux and failed to get manufacturer adoption they needed. Intel would be large enough to convince pc manufacturers to make MeeGo netbooks and tablets.
2. Microsoft has crippled the Netbook/Tablet by only allowing manufacturers to use single core processors on Windows 7 starter edition. Under MeeGo processors such as the Intel atom would be free to grow in power and would allow faster multi-core processors.
3. Presents a unique user experience much different than the desktop and taskbar based one we have had for years.
4. Ok this is a big one user experience the user experience of MeeGo has a much shorter learning curve than other distros of Linux and it seems that there wouldn't be a huge amount of command line also something that has scared users away in the past.
5. Windows has become too slow and too large for netbooks/tablets and we are starting to see a large amount of Android netbooks/tablets but the problem with Android is Google doesn't want Android to be on devices other than phones and Android doesn't provide enough for desktop computing.
Ok so what do you guys think?

Becuase it is organized and pretty (tablet).

Apps apps apps...

Poll lacks my selection: MeeGo COULD be a huge success but only with the right push

It will not succed if the HW manufactors doesnt release Meego based HW this year. For example: Right now I want to buy an tablet or an netbook with atleast a linux dist like ubuntu or even better meego, but there is only windows laptops/netbook in my country and that make me sick. :-(

Just google on Tablet or netbook and Meego/Ubuntu and you all see what I mean.

Now one so far has an Meego tablet ongoing? Instead I have seen alot of Android/WinCE och Windows7 tablets/netbooks :-(

It looks like were back in same **** as before. Microsoft and now Google takes over and only some techical geeks want Meego and fully Linux.

It will it never change :-/ So sick of it.

Btw I am not sure that even Nokia will use Meego in the future as a main OS. Maybe they will release one or two cpomputerphones for geeks, and then go back to S^4 as main OS...

I really hope I am wrong in this but if Intel, Nokia shall succed they must be release something NOW.

Methinks you're confusing Microsoft and Windows 7 with Intel and power consumption in regards to the Atom cpus.

There actually are some dual core Atom cpus, however they're intended for nettops rather than netbooks or tablets because of power consumption.

Although MS did refuse to sell XP on anything with more than 1 GB of RAM and 160 GB HDD.

Dude there aren't any MeeGo devices because is still in early development but even in beta form MeeGo looks very good. I think MeeGo will succeed because the user experience is unique and it is much better than that of other Linux distributions.

In the next year it will probably have a limited success, lead by Nokia N9 and perhaps an atom Z600 special device (huge smartphone ? tablet ?). There will be a few netbooks/smartbooks but I don't expect them to take a large market share : this market will continue to be dominated by windows because of brand recognition and conservatism. Also Android will be a competitor as the alternative OS for netbooks. Android will benefit from a larger brand recognition and that it is already an established OS.
In the newer tablet market it will be similar : IPad is the leader (at least in term of brand), a swarm of Android tablets will take quite a big market share. MeeGo will arrive a bit later with less brand recognition.
At the same time MeeGo will make its debut in entertaining system (IVI & connected TVs...) with success.

The critical moment will be in the second and third year : MeeGo will be more mature then. They will be a good number of apps for MeeGo, but still far less than for android. I believe the pure performance should be better than Android because it is native apps instead of virtual machine. At this point some constructors should be hesitating between MeeGo and Android. This will be the real test if MeeGo will be a small player or a dominant one.

My prediction is that most constructor will go for android, but a large enough minority will go MeeGo. A determinant factor will be intel marketing of MeeGo for Moorestown Z600 processor (and its successors). It could help push MeeGo on Netbooks/tablets.

If in three years MeeGo market share is something like half of Android then I think it can become trully dominant in the long term because of its technical and organisational strength : the more open devellopment process and its capability to be fully customised in the UX layer will appeal to constructors, Qt will attract third apps devs (espacially if there is a port to android and iphone).

I bet a lot on the N9 to impress the industry. What matter the most is not the market share, but that the industry get the feeling that something is happening with MeeGo and that they must not miss the train...

I actually think meego will end up being huge. I think in a year we will think back with nostalgia on trite discussions like this where only a select few (well millions actually but still a select few be comparison) were waiting for the os.

So put me in the it will be big, there is room for a third giant alternative to ios/android category.

Of course it could bomb but I think the op has it right, this is the first real linux (I'm discounting android) with a real chance...

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