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

I'm no expert but it seems that there maybe an opportunity for some standardization between fundamental technologies like SurfaceFlinger/AudioFlinger and Wayland/Pulseaudio. If they could co-exist or if apps written against one API could be run on the other with a thin shim then you could more easily move apps back and forth between traditional desktop and mobile systems. One of the benefits of the Apple iOS/OSX ecosystem is that they share a lot of the same underlying infrastructure. Even better would be to standardize on one stack for A/V although it might still be sufficient if both stacks use the same underlying kernel support infrastructure.

If we end up with competing stacks with competing kernel drivers then that weakens traditional desktop linux much more than Android. If the systems can cooperate or standardize then they can add to each others strength in new ways, as demonstrated by Valve recently. If all the drivers were upstream in the kernel then the talent for optimizing them can be pooled and multiplied. If the A/V systems are standardized than that also provides a nice target for other distributions like Jolla, webOS, etc.