The question circulating around is: should Nokia drop the MeeGo and throw in Android?

No, because Nokia (and indeed, many others) don't like effectively being under the thumb of Google.

Despite it being open, the course Android takes and control over the code are squarely in Google's court. No one had the Froyo source until it was dropped by Google. In contrast, MeeGo development, once in the open stays in the open. It's also owned by the Linux Foundation, and not Intel or Nokia. With luck, MeeGo will end up being steered much like the Kernel itself.

And hell, -I- don't want it. That should be reason enough

Why should they? Diversity is good, and Android is a phone OS, while MeeGo is designed for mobile computers.

wrong time to ask this question when we have no idea how one will end up being, it could be 10x better than android or end up being lot worse, we have no idea of knowing yet so the question is stupid.
Ask it again after October and people will be able to give educated answer and not one based on hear say and guessing.

Another day - another DIY analyst (read idiot).

Heh, that's actually a good and valid question in the current market. Kevin (Toffel) also thrown a few good numbers to support that question..

..but the chance of that happening is probably near zero... and Nokia will probably only consider Android if MeeGo completely fails in the market.

And I think that's just great.

Because MeeGo represents a contender with uniquely competent technical design and a proper ideology behind it... and it wouldn't take off if decisions are purely made based on financial and commercial considerations.

MeeGo deserves a chance

Being a "phone" is easily a subset of any mobile computer. Given the software and hardware, it's trivial. Android is Google's idea of "mobile computing," and it's not at all unworkable.

Manufacturers don't like playing second fiddle to Google with respect to control over the OS. With MeeGo, much like the kernel, they are on an even playing field with others.

That and drawing on upstream projects for subsystems means each smaller part gets much more focus than when the whole thing is built from scratch by one group.

No.

We don't need Yet Another Android Manufacturer.

Nokia stopped making PC's after PC market became dominated by generic Wintel manufacturers. I very much doubt that it wants to become a generic Android manufacturer. Altough, if Nokia loses the mobile platform war then that is what we'll have: Android as default OS, and maybe Apple/iPhone having same kind of small niche as it has on PCs.

android to non-touch devices. do I have to say more about that blog?

e: and did you notice the perspective?
O = ameeriikaa
. = rest of the world

Wow! what an interesting concept for a discussion, which have never been discussed before, ground to dust, baked again just to be ground to even finer dust, and then left to dry in the fathoms of irrelevance...


In short - not THIS discussion again.... please...