Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters) [LWN.net]

Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)

Posted Feb 9, 2011 16:05 UTC (Wed) by DOT (subscriber, #58786)
Parent article: Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)

MeeGo has the potential for a huge developer following, because it's an unrestricted and familiar Linux system. That's going to bring them the ecosystem they want. The big problem here is quite simple: there are no MeeGo phones. And we need them a year ago. The solution: be faster.

Killing it makes no sense. It would leave Nokia without an ecosystem of their own. They would become an ordinary reseller of Windows or Android phones. Sure, it's a safe way to keep a smaller Nokia alive, but it's not going to allow them to reclaim their leadership position.

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Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)

Posted Feb 9, 2011 16:13 UTC (Wed) by ber (subscriber, #2142) [Link] (1 responses)

Two other advantages that MeeGo could claim: It tries to avoid fragmentation more than Android and the core is maintained multi-vendor.

Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)

Posted Feb 9, 2011 23:01 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Avoid fragmentation? It seems like MeeGo and its predecessors have promoted fragmentation with every decision they've made.

Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)

Posted Feb 9, 2011 19:28 UTC (Wed) by kmike (guest, #5260) [Link] (1 responses)

> The big problem here is quite simple: there are no MeeGo phones. And we need them a year ago.

Was N900 not enough? Android kickstarted from the single phone, too.

Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)

Posted Feb 10, 2011 8:45 UTC (Thu) by sce (subscriber, #65433) [Link]

I didn't buy the N900 since I decided to wait for the first MeeGo phone instead. Now I don't know, I'll probably end up with a high end Android phone.

I thought they said they wouldn't officially support MeeGo on the N900? I wanted a full bred MeeGo phone. The incentive for me is to have a phone that's supported while it's rooted. Unsupported Maemo upgrade (or rooted Android) doesn't cut it (well, I guess it'll have to now).