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Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
The problem with that logic is that even if Nokia does drop it, it won't matter. There's still the Linux Foundation, Intel, and every other large scale adopter. Even if Nokia never put out another MeeGo product again, everyone else still probably will.
Yes, as I know, acer is also developing MeeGo phones, maybe using Intel x86 CPU and MeeGo reference UI, and ST-Ericssion is working on the U8500 platform, but the problem is, no matter who will take part in this project, MeeGo for handset has few chance to win.



Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
Not to mention that Nokia and Intel threw quite a lot of money on getting people interested in MeeGo. There's threads on that MeeGo conference (or was it Nokia World? IDK), describing just that. So that takes out the Windows 7 point of the initial post.
Really ? How many efferts ?

When WP7 release, there are more than 2000 popular apps already, Microsoft pay the developers of most popular apps to develop for WP7. And WP7 has got Office, Xbox Games, Zune, Bing search, Voice Search (Microsoft owned them) etc.
What does Nokia have ?
Don't tell me ovi store. It sucks.



Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
The Android point just... doesn't make sense? Best hardware? The N900 is a year old or so and it still overperforms so many phones out there. And the N8 certainly shows supperiority to quite a few things. In fact, when was the last time Nokia's latest flagship phone didn't come with better or at least matching hardware vs. the competition? Yeah, Android has better hardware platforms NOW... because MeeGo isn't on any mass-produced devices yet (unless you count the N900s running development builds). They'll no doubt equal out when the mass market MeeGo handhelds hit.
Yes, definitely, best hardware.
Tegra 2 / Dual Core Cortex-A9 CPU will be used on Android phone first, not MeeGo phone, not iPhone.
Because Android is open to many vendors.

Maybe N9 (Dali) will be very powerful when released.
But Nokia only has effort to maintain 1 or 2 MeeGo phones.
But Android phone model is much more.
There will be more and more Android phones that more powerful than N9 as time goes by.


Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
As for the iPhone point - if MeeGo retains the right aspectas of its roots, MeeGo will not only have Qt applications, but it will also hopefully keep being able to run uncompiled Python, Perl, and Ruby, as well as a bunch of other coding languages. The iPhone developers are numerous now, but it's also going to become far more advantageous to develop for MeeGo when it takes off, because your Qt apps can go anywhere MeeGo will be, which will be a lot more places than just phones.
Not as easy as you said.
So many apps at least takes 2 years to accumulate.
Besides, MeeGo is a new platform, why developers should develop an app for a phone that have no big sales quantity ?




Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
If anything, MeeGo has simple mass adaptation of predecessors (by users more so than developers) and Apple's marketing to fear - not actual objective disadvantages. That's not to say there won't be any, but there's no indicators of specific ones yet.
Nokia's MeeGo (Maemo 6) use deb package manage system.
Intel's MeeGo use rpm package manage system.
There is even such a difference within this alliance.
This is very strange and not good for MeeGo's development.
Intel just want to sell x86 CPUs on Mobile phone,
Nokia is still using ARM platform.
It is a strange cooperation.
And I cannot see the hope to success.
 

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