Intel boss searches planet for post-Nokia MeeGo spouse

A Trojan horse is a GIFT...

...why would anyone expect Microsoft to PAY Nokia?

You know what? Otellini is right

Android is currently among the biggest craze among consumers where cellphone OSes are involved. Nokia could've jumped on the bandwagon and regain the lost userbase instead of going for an OS where you can't even do cut and paste and there's no Angry Birds.

Nokia is making a rather bad decision here. I'd rather an Android Nokia phone than a WinPhone7 one. Especially since WinPhone7 is 10 steps back from Windows Mobile 6.0.

Nokia failed here, hence the icon.

Meego + WebOS?

Is there some potential fusion there?

Whats meego?..

That's what they'll be saying a years time. Meego will go no where and intel know it. Really with MS, Google and Apple each having great eco systems already in place and carving up market meego has not chance. No one is left to partner with it to give it significant impact in the market.

I think in years to come Elop will be touted as the man who saved Nokia when ever chinese knockoff will be shoving android on it degrading the experience with shit hardware, no support and buggy ports. Don't get me wrong. I already own an android tablet but I'm already seeing issues with android that don't bode well going forward. They fell into the MS trap of old of playing too loose with requirements and licensing which will degrade the experience going forward.

On the other hand ...

It looks as if the Nok had too many options on the go, couldn't tie it down to one thing or the other and all the while saw market share drop with impact on predicted future earnings predictably needing quite a bit of revision

(That is:

expected dosh in: Ooo lovely\

actual dosh in: Wha'?!

So perhaps linking with MS to get/maintain/increase market share is a reasonable short term measure.

For why AC!? did I here you ask? (I'll assume so any way.)

Because it gives the Nok short term cohesion and at least some chance of market share.

It also allows? the Nok to leapfrog into a future spec without having to try too hard to meet a present spec.

So Mr iNTEL - hold your horses dude, keep sending the Nok Christmas cards and who knows, five year hence the Nok may indeedy go for MiniMe 6 without the research & dev costs?

"...when the pair merged their Moblin and Maemo mobile-Linux projects..."

That's what I thought, too. But it's more accurate to say Moblin and Maemo got thrown in the bin and they started from scratch. I was genuinely shocked when I tried out the MeeGo dual-boot on my N900 and realised how little progress they'd made. I can only start to imagine Elop's shock when they showed him how far they'd got; I'd love to hear how that particular meeting went.

China

That's where the next Nokia will come from, you mark my words. Say "Meego to China". See? sounds right doesn't it?

I'll get my beautifully embroidered mandarin jacket

go meegooo!!!!!

We don't want strategic Google products controlling the world.

Just for Fun

I think I will buy the Nokia MeeGo phone when it comes out. Not because I want one but just to screw up Nokia and Microsoft.

It would be fun if this phone turned out to be a market leader

Oh here we go...

What aspect of your life does Google control? Does Google force you to get and go to work? Does Google force you to eat your vegetables? Does Google stop you from exceeding the speed limits? No, no and no. Sheesh. What is it with people who are so dead set against moving the world on to some standard platforms/frameworks? IT'S A GOOD THING. The world does not need more than 3 ecosystems for any product. 3 is all it takes to achieve a level of healthy competition and innovation. Consumers, and I'm one of them, hate too many choices; it makes our heads hurt to have to do so much research. We just want three options, entry level, mid range and high end. It's not that hard folks.

Nokia and Microsoft

Absolutely, 100%, completely the wrong decision.

They had Symbian with well-designed phones and were doing well. Popular smartphones beginning with the iPhone came out and they failed to react. They released a few rubbish attempts at smartphones still based on Symbian which failed due to having no ecosystem. At the same time they kept Maemo and Meego on the back burner, doing not very much at all, hoping either would stir themselves into life.

Then the iPhone and Android handsets started duking it out, with Android very quickly catching up. Nokia then finds itself in a position of rapidly declining market share with nothing in the pipeline for rescue.

If Nokia had put a good chunk of their R&D into Maemo and really pushed it, it would have been what Android is today. They're both Linux-based mobile OS's but Android has had a lot more R&D from Google refining how it works so now any handset maker can use it to push out a nice smartphone. Meego never really got started.

So what Nokia should have done was announce they were going to be heavy players in the Android ecosystem. They have a massive team of Linux developers who could have pulled Android in their own direction. Code submitted by Nokia would be taken into the Android source tree and could have effectively made it their own OS with their own closed implementations alongside the open-source stuff. Then they would be competing with Motorola, LG, Samsung, HTC etc with the same OS, customised and made to work better by their talented developers, but riding on the still big Nokia name. Nokia could never have completely shut Google out, but they could have used it as a lifeline until they were on the up again and then been in a better position to dictate to Google, in a position to fork Android if they so wished.

It would actually be really easy to make a massively selling smartphone that could have saved Nokia. Look what Samsung did by accident with the Galaxy S.

Instead they go and team up with Microsoft to get an OS no-one wants anyway (apart from a few Microsoft devotees) to save their business. Wow. No matter how cheap licences for WP7 are, they're still not free. Nokia have snatched defeat from the jaws of easy victory here. What utter fucktards.

It's like someone on Twitter said, when you're drowning in the toilet bowl, you'll jump on the first turd you see to avoid going down.

Attack of the Clones

The strictures that Microsoft put on Phone 7 implementations mean that a Nokia Phone 7 device will look almost identical, from a UI point of view, to offerings from HTC (possibly their biggest rival at the moment) and others. There is also very little room for manoeuvre on the hardware front, as well, Microsoft stipulate the buttons and the rest of the front is taken up by the screen.

With Android they could, at least, put their own stamp on the UI (like HTC's Sense, Motorola's Blur, etc), but with MS they are stuck with a phone that looks the same as everyone else's.