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Day: GNOME OSDay: GNOME OSPosted Aug 8, 2012 7:34 UTC (Wed) by slashdot (guest, #22014)In reply to: Day: GNOME OS by drag Parent article: Day: GNOME OS
I think the reason is that mobile non-Android Linux has never been backed by a company who totally relied on it and was investing as much money as Google+partners and Apple probably did.
IIRC the only phone maker backing it was Nokia, but their attention was mostly towards Symbian.
Also, writing everything but the kernel from scratch yourself like Google and Apple did probably gives a better result than adapting existing components, as long as you have a huge budget allowing you to hire as many people as needed.
And finally there's the fact that Google decided to write the Android userland instead of going with GNOME/KDE, which is probably because they thought that Java was a much better language than C/C++ for desktop development, because they thought that designing specifically for mobile would give huge benefits.
Given Android1s success, Google's decisions were probably right, so it's not clear why doing differently would work now.
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Day: GNOME OS Posted Aug 8, 2012 8:08 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
> I think the reason is that mobile non-Android Linux has never been backed by a company who totally relied on it and was investing as much money as Google+partners and Apple probably did.
There are a lot of terrible things wrong with 'non-Android Linux' currently. It existing long before Android ever did and has had decades of development beyond what Apple did with iOS. As it turns out it appears to have been easier for Google and friends to avoid distributions and 'non-Android Linux' completely and base a new platform on Java. This points to a serious problem.
> IIRC the only phone maker backing it was Nokia, but their attention was mostly towards Symbian.
Nokia at the time of their adoption of Linux owned well over 75% of the smart phone market, world-wide. They were _THE_ smart phone maker. Nobody else came close. In addition to Nokia the Meego/Meamo initiatives had a corporate support from a number of backers, including Intel... which is just about as big as you can get and not be Microsoft or Apple. Besides that there are various companies that were interested in it for non-smartphone applications such as tablets or vehicle entertainment centers.
I don't think that lack of capital is a core issue here. Nokia still has plenty money and did have plenty talent. It's simply mismanagement. Google's various 'android partners' have no loyalty to Google or the platform. Nokia had several significant 'Symbian partners', too. They would of been just as willing to use Meamo/whatever as much as Android if it worked out well. I am sure they are far more interested in a working platform then swooning over the idea of 'davlik' or whatever.
Day: GNOME OS Posted Aug 8, 2012 8:58 UTC (Wed) by krakensden (subscriber, #72039) [Link]
> In addition to Nokia the Meego/Meamo initiatives had a corporate support from a number of backers, including Intel...
The tortured history of the two projects, including multiple throw-everything-away-and-start-from-scratch moments on both the Intel and Nokia ends, demonstrates that they weren't something management was serious about or cared about.
Day: GNOME OS Posted Aug 8, 2012 16:45 UTC (Wed) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link]
Are there any studies about companies suffering from ADHD? And how to cure them?
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