You don't associate Nokia with geeks (yet) but with Google you do. My personal opinion is that Android's success story is more because of people tend to listen to what Google has to say because they are large and have had a number of successful services (but also plenty that aren't that successful). We haven't seen any devices yet (well, the WeTab exits.) but I'm quite sure we will see some this year, maybe Q2-Q3, hopefully already at MWC. MeeGo was announced in 2010 and since then they have been busy merging two projects and at the same time Qt:ify it (maemo and moblin was built on gtk). In other words, it took them 3 years to actually publish the first release and I think that it wasn't usable until the donut release (September 2009). Knacktus: You seem to forget that Android was bought by Google in 2005, yes that's almost 6 years ago and their first release was in 2008. Look at what's going on at the app stores of Android and Apple.īeing competitive at creating hardware is a different story to being a great software development company.Īfter having that said I would be very happy if Nokia could surprise us all with the greatest Smartphone ever with Meego OS. Look at what RIM did with their playbook OS. It's not that complex that money couldn't help. Qt Quick and Qt Creator 2.1 should have been finished for at least half a year. I mean, we're talking about a billion dollar market and I see development progress and release schedules in Meego and Qt that doesn't seem to be very different from open source sparetime projects. I'm afraid I have to say that Nokia doesn't seem to be able to create a competitive smartphone OS and even more important an app ecosystem.įor how long are they working on Maemo / Meego? What's the pace they're getting Qt Quick out? That's all way to slow. I have read the whole article last week and according to this article Nokia always had long term plans, if they switch to either Android or WP7 it will be a short term plan and I don't think Nokia would have put too much effort on planning Symbian^4 and even releasing Symbian^3.Īlso the article describes how Nokia wants to keep its customers, if you look at Nokia dumb phones, Nokia E62 and Nokia N8 you can expect same workflow, and Nokia lost 1 of 5 customers because they had a plan to migrate their users from dumb phones to smart phones.īut still they are rumors, I am waiting for the Q1 2011 because they are about to release an update to Symbian^3, Nokia E7 and other news. Another article have a completely different and more understandable thoughts on Nokia, Android and WP7:
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