MeeGo + LiMo = Tizen

Posted Oct 3, 2011 11:18 UTC (Mon) by alankila (guest, #47141)
In reply to: MeeGo + LiMo = Tizen by dneary
Parent article: MeeGo + LiMo = Tizen

It's a simple problem: you need this OS in hands of people to have any kind of ecosystem going.

Maemo already shipped. You could argue MeeGo hasn't shipped once. Now that it seemed like it might be ready for some real-world usage, they announce a rewrite which is going to take another year.

In the meantime, the competitors get better and their ecosystems become more entrenched, and they all already support HTML5 applications. It doesn't seem like writing your entire operating system on top of HTML5 makes much sense to begin with, and I doubt there are huge advantages to doing so.

Wouldn't it have been better just to slap a HTML5 runtime on top of MeeGo and call it a day? If you insist on broadening the scope of HTML5 later, you'll be in position to gradually migrate your system software on HTML5 stack. And you could ship the OS, I don't know, next month?

MeeGo + LiMo = Tizen

Posted Oct 15, 2011 16:27 UTC (Sat) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link]

> You could argue MeeGo hasn't shipped once.

Well, I've seen a netbook in a local shop. The info card next to it claimed it was running MeeGo.

And then there's the N9, which, you could argue, is not True MeeGo, but is a damn fine device anyway.