MeeGo to return next month with Jolla phone launch (The H) [LWN.net]

MeeGo to return next month with Jolla phone launch (The H)

Posted Oct 10, 2012 6:52 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: MeeGo to return next month with Jolla phone launch (The H) by shmerl
Parent article: MeeGo to return next month with Jolla phone launch (The H)

You don't have a "good mature system" to use. There are no hardware to run it on.

This Mobile Linux (such as Mer and derivatives) had and has chances story looks as hopeless as the esperanto story.

Esperantists also can not understand why people are willing to spend years of their life and [collectively] hundred of billions of dollars to learn "crippled" English language when Esperanto is so much easier to learn and use. But the answer is obvious: with English you can gen sensible ROI (if you known English then this directly translates to higher salary in many countries), but with Esperanto... why would you bother?

Similarly with "crippled" Android and your "good mature system": with Android you can reach billions of users out there (sales of Android phones will surpass billion in 2013), but with that "good mature system" you maybe, just maybe, will create something which you can share with ten of thousands GTA04 users. Why bother? Sure, some people will code anyway (hey, if people are still keeping Haiku, ReactOS, and even Hurd alive then you can bet there will be someone who'll keep this "good mature system" on lifesupport), but can you call this "success"?

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MeeGo to return next month with Jolla phone launch (The H)

Posted Oct 10, 2012 16:43 UTC (Wed) by shmerl (guest, #65921) [Link]

You just don't like that something better can come out, that current inferior Android. But I don't really see a reason not to like it, and being so defensive about an inferior technology. Hardware is coming, and Jolla is working precisely on that.

MeeGo to return next month with Jolla phone launch (The H)

Posted Oct 11, 2012 14:51 UTC (Thu) by union (subscriber, #36393) [Link]

I agree, that standard linux is better than Android from tehnical standpoint.

Unfortunately in marketplace technical standpoint is mostly irrelevant.
I mean IOS is nothing to write home about from technical standpoint either.

Doesn't metter how much better MeeGo is than Android or IOS if nobody will use it.

Unless there is some entity that is prepared to spend billions (or at lest hundreds of millions ) on marketing MeeGo, and bootstrap its app market this will not change.