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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 23, 2011 14:37 UTC (Tue) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588)
In reply to: Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica) by xxiao
Parent article: Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica)

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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