Nokia Only Eying One Maemo Device in 2010
Step Aside, Let the Android Through
Maemo, i'm sorry we have to let you go before your first day at the job, thanks for the effort.
kingstu said:
Maemo is not new, it has been around far longer than Android. It has the potential to be much more useful for Nokia than Andriod. I for one don't want to see advertisements based on the contents of my texts messages starting to appear on my phone which I can see being the future of Android.
What?
But when it comes to quanitity of devices, Android wins, over all other OS's.
More important, though, is that both of them have done exactly what their respective developers have wanted them to do: Google wanted to spread an open sourced mobile software platform, and purposely pushed it on multiple OEMs. Nokia focused on creating a new device category that, admittedly, isn't there yet in terms of adopt...
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ibnturab said:
Google wanted to do with mobile OS's what windows has done to the pc. And by all accounts, it seems thats the direction we are all headed-- one dominant OS with apps compatible with almost all mobile devices.
What?! Not even close - the mobile OS field is scattered & spread out far beyond the desktop scheme. There's not even agreement as to the exact numbers, but it's clear that Apple, Blackberry, and Android are here to stay, and Windows Mobile - while fading - isn't going away anytime soon either. Than there's all the also rans (Palm, Symbian, etc) and proprietary dumb phone UIs. No, the mobile OS demographics are fractured for good, no matter how much they might shift one way or ano...
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If you are speaking about this moment in time, then yes, you are absolutelycorrect. But the future ... No one knows of course but there is a definate move towards fewer mobile OS -- simply to save money on the manufacturing end. In terms of mobile manufacturers, a lot of these are going to go merge in the next 5 years or so, and the environment will get less and less diverse. The 'dumb' phone OSes are also going to fade out == in a few years there aren't going to be too many dumb phones around. If you recall a nokia came out publically stating that its terminating the symbian platform only to retract that statement the next day . But ...
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ibnturab said:
If you recall a nokia came out publically stating that its terminating the symbian platform only to retract that statement the next day .
Please share where you heard this. I read Nokia say that it was going to evolve past S60 to Symbian^3, etc. I also read that the company was planning on going to Maemo for all future Nseries devices (although any mention of the future of Eseries, Xseries and Xpress Music was notably absent). However, nowhere have I read or heard that Nokia ever had any plans to completely terminate the Symbian platform.
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