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The story of Nokia MeeGo (TaskuMuro)The story of Nokia MeeGo (TaskuMuro)Posted Oct 13, 2012 1:51 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: The story of Nokia MeeGo (TaskuMuro) by daniels Parent article: The story of Nokia MeeGo (TaskuMuro)
so instead they announced that all development agsinst their current platform was a dead-end, released a windows phone and almost immediatly afterwords announced that that platform was a dead-end and that the phones were not going to be able to be upgraded to the next release of the software.
Nokia's foot-gun didn't need Linux for ammunition, they are shooting themselves quite nicely with Windows.
If they had actually stuck with any one platform instead of changing platforms for every major phone release cycle they would probably be far better of than they are now.
It's possible that Windows will save them, but it's also a new, unknown phone platform with no apps. In addition they can't change it as they are completely at the mercy of Microsoft. Microsoft does not have a good track record of supporting their partners over a long timeframe.
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The story of Nokia MeeGo (TaskuMuro) Posted Oct 13, 2012 1:58 UTC (Sat) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]
> so instead they announced that all development agsinst their current platform was a dead-end, released a windows phone and almost immediatly afterwords announced that that platform was a dead-end and that the phones were not going to be able to be upgraded to the next release of the software.
Yes, which was a shocking shocking error, proving that not only have they learned nothing whatsoever from S60 and ITOS/Maemo/MeeGo-Harmattan, they've also learned nothing whatsoever from Android.
> It's possible that Windows will save them, but it's also a new, unknown phone platform with no apps. In addition they can't change it as they are completely at the mercy of Microsoft. Microsoft does not have a good track record of supporting their partners over a long timeframe.
Windows Phone has 110k apps, some of which are shockingly high quality. (Many of which are totally pointless.) It's certainly got a much wider breadth of apps than MeeGo ever had or was ever destined to have, and the average quality is much much higher.
(Full disclosure: I own a Lumia 800, bought because I thought - and still think - the UI's fantastic and it's a pleasure to use. I'm also selling it, because they've killed the platform by not having upgrades.)
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