Laughing Man | # 31 | 2010-07-05, 03:00 | Report

The thing that will determine Meego's success is how many manufactuers they can get on board. And how many platforms they can get on (netbooks, tvs, car systems, etc...)

kryptoniankid17 | # 32 | 2010-07-05, 03:30 | Report

u do realise that this is an alpha release. Its like comparing batter to a baked cake relax. Start complaining when we have an actual official non beta, non alpha release.

Odd_gunnic | # 33 | 2010-07-05, 03:50 | Report

There's certainly alot of speculation here but the truth is we technically haven't seen Nokia's offerings...

bayernhan | # 34 | 2010-07-05, 05:55 | Report

im not complaining, I just know that nokia has a tendency to release products without the firmware or os mature enough or with bugs.I want to be wrong about this I hope meego will become a big sucess but I just dont see it

kryptoniankid17 | # 35 | 2010-07-05, 06:03 | Report

but i can certainily feel your frustration towards nokia. But lets waite for a beta at least.

kureyon | # 36 | 2010-07-05, 06:10 | Report

Intel doesn't know how to do low power. If you're looking for a portable device with long battery life then forget whatever wonder chip Intel comes up with.

dchky | # 37 | 2010-07-05, 08:30 | Report

I think Nokia's marketing group know a thing or two more about selling phones and operating systems than you do. MeeGo will do okay for itself - while I feel the interface is boring right now, obviously each manufacturer is going to code up their own stuff to make it interesting and worthwhile.

Now, seems like nobody else called you out on this, so I will.

In which universe do you live that you can say 3 million odd units (talking about the N97 here) shipped amounts to a failure? You, sir, have no clue what you are talking about. 10 million 5800's sold.

If you believe the stats, it appears Nokia are shipping about 300 million handsets each year, give or take a handful of millions or so. I think their bank account is pretty healthy myself.

daddeddad | # 38 | 2010-07-05, 09:27 | Report

Just like any company in tech then?

Think of n900 as vista and next meego-phone as win7?

qgil | # 39 | 2010-07-05, 11:16 | Report

How do operators,chipset vendors and device vendors fit in your pronostics? They are relevant stakeholders, factors of success. How happy are they about Apple, Google etc and how could MeeGo make them more happy than these competitors?

Not an easy question but just as relevant as good UI, good developer offering and good apps.

Kangal | # 40 | 2010-07-05, 13:29 | Report

My thoughts on mobile OS's.

There are 3 outstanding competitors; iOS (v4+), Android (v2.1+) and MeeGo.

Obviously iOS is cross-compatible (iPhone, 3G, 3GS, 4, iTouch, iTouch3, iPad) but not across different standards (ARM, x86, RISC) and only supports hardware manufactured by Apple, which is a big disadvantage and I don't support it.

Android is everything I like; its touch-based OS for underpowered devices, cross-compatible and multi-platform (x86 & ARM). It is average complexity (has its limits), has a great UI, already available widespread and very popular. It is java-based so Apps are relatively easy to write. All the big plus'es, but it is much reliant on the VM so Apps run "slower" and basically to make a port you need to start from scratch.

MeeGo is "smarter" than Android in some aspects. It is exactly like the Android platform (touch OS, great UI, cross-compatable, multiplatform) with two exceptions. This exception is in its solution to cross-compatability. Instead of java/dalvik, it uses Qt, making it possible to keep its cross-compatability even across platforms. Qt allows the software one step closer to the hardware, so it can run "faster" than java-based software. In addition, Qt makes it possible to port existing Linux apps (and there's many) to the MeeGo base. The second exception is that MeeGo has strict rules on UI, you may apply skins/themes but each version will require the same UX. This is a good thing, you can customize things but there is a limit, so if you used MeeGo on X device you know how to use Y device. And this potentially prevents fragmentation. There will be several MeeGo versions, each like each other (kernel etc) but offer different UX (eg Smartphone vs Netbook) for obvious reasons. And all Apps will work on all versions.

So MeeGo is "potentially" the best OS available out there (truly, even against Win7) but it has many ways to go before it can compete with Android, and an eternity longer if it were to compete against Microsoft in the high-powered (laptops, desktops) devices sector.
With MeeGo its possible, you may only ever need to know two OS your entire life: a high-performance OS (eg Windows7) for high-powered devices and MeeGo for all other computers.