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Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica)Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica)Posted Aug 21, 2011 11:56 UTC (Sun) by xxiao (subscriber, #9631)In reply to: Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica) by stumbles Parent article: Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica)
Why can't HP open source its WebOS? I mean _really_ open it (unlike what Google does), that may change everything.
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Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica) Posted Aug 22, 2011 18:15 UTC (Mon) by jlargentaye (guest, #75206) [Link]
MeeGo rather than Android is a better example of an open-source platform's success after the corporate backers abandoned it. I'm not optimistic.
Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica) Posted Aug 22, 2011 19:33 UTC (Mon) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588) [Link]
Define successful please? Meego is a promising alternative, but I don't see any real traction beyond a cool platform to hack on and some netbooks. Please tell me I'm misinformed here.
Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica) Posted Aug 23, 2011 14:26 UTC (Tue) by xxiao (subscriber, #9631) [Link]
it appears HP has a unix root and webos is shipping in volume, meego is relatively immature and as said, no traction at all. besides, the big gun intel backer for meego, is a chip vendor instead of software/system provider, that makes huge difference i think.
Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica) Posted Aug 23, 2011 14:37 UTC (Tue) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588) [Link]
Intel gave out free tablets (the ExoPC) at the desktop summit in berlin a few weeks ago (https://www.desktopsummit.org/). They ran the latest and greatest meego as far as I understood. At the pub, one of the gents who got one showed it to me. It was quite underwhelming, the hardware was huge, and the interface was very buggy. I want meego to succeed, but looked at the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in my bag. There was simply 0 comparison. Fedora with gnome shell seemed a lot more polished than meego on the ExoPC.
I do want meego to succeed, but I think they are too late to the game. They lack the warchest of money msft is willing to waste making windows mobile competitive. Hopefully time proves me wrong but I'll stay a cynic on this one.
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