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Editorial: Dear Nokia, you cannot be serious

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Re: Editorial: Dear Nokia, you cannot be serious

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Post by nextparadigms »

I've always thought that Meego would be a much better 3rd platform than WP7. Meego is a much better competitor to Android than WP7 is. Meego can go in the same places Android can go because of its opensource and free nature. It can be on everything and built by "anyone" just like Android. WP7 on the other hand can only be used on mobile phones, and even then only by manufacturers that either want to pay the license fee, or are "allowed" by Microsoft to use it (see the case of Microsoft allowing only certain manufacturers to use Windows 8).

It's a shame that Nokia won't give their best to make Meego succeed, because that would mean it could hurt WP7's adoption. Also, I'd rather see 2 of the top 3 platforms being open source, than 2 proprietary ones. I think it would be for the best for all of us.

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Post by ugh »

nextparadigms wrote: post #2

I've always thought that Meego would be a much better 3rd platform than WP7. Meego is a much better competitor to Android than WP7 is. Meego can go in the same places Android can go because of its opensource and free nature. It can be on everything and built by "anyone" just like Android. WP7 on the other hand can only be used on mobile phones, and even then only by manufacturers that either want to pay the license f…

I think you conclusion is right but the way you get there isn't quite. It's not so much about some special property of Android or Meego, it's about control. WP7 might work great on tablets but Nokia can't just decide to make it run on tablets. That's Microsoft's decision. Nokia doesn't control their destiny. If they settle on WP7 the best case scenario for them is to become a company like HTC only with even less control over their software.

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Post by timerickson »

ugh wrote: post #5
nextparadigms wrote: post #2

I've always thought that Meego would be a much better 3rd platform than WP7. Meego is a much better competitor to Android than WP7 is. Meego can go in the same places Android can go because of its opensource and free nature. It can be on everything and built by "anyone" just like Android. WP7 on the other hand can only be used on mobile phones, and even then only by manufacturers that either want to pay the license f…

I think you conclusion is right but the way you get there isn't quite. It's not so much about some special property of Android or Meego, it's about control. WP7 might work great on tablets but Nokia can't just decide to make it run on tablets. That's Microsoft's decision. Nokia doesn't control their destiny. If they settle on WP7 the best case scenario for them is to become a company like HTC only with even less cont…

You're forgetting they already have WP7 on tablets. It's called Windows 8

Re: Editorial: Dear Nokia, you cannot be serious

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Post by contextfree »

timerickson wrote: post #7
ugh wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you conclusion is right but the way you get there isn't quite. It's not so much about some special property of Android or Meego, it's about control. WP7 might work great on tablets but Nokia can't just decide to make it run on tablets. That's Microsoft's decision. Nokia doesn't control their destiny. If they settle on WP7 the best case scenario for them is to become a company like HTC only with even less cont…

You're forgetting they already have WP7 on tablets. It's called Windows 8

I don't think that's the usual definition of "already". =)

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Post by recoiledsnake »

nextparadigms wrote: post #2

I've always thought that Meego would be a much better 3rd platform than WP7. Meego is a much better competitor to Android than WP7 is. Meego can go in the same places Android can go because of its opensource and free nature. It can be on everything and built by "anyone" just like Android. WP7 on the other hand can only be used on mobile phones, and even then only by manufacturers that either want to pay the license f…

The hardware seems excellent but the UI feels like another icon based copy-cat of the desktop UI metaphor like iOS and Android. Even WebOS had some new things going for it.

For the sake of UI variety, I would pick WP7 to be in the top 3, atleast it offers an alternative form of UI radically different from the same old icon based desktop UI metaphor seen from almost 3 decades now in iOS/Android/Meego/WebOS. http://img.zdnet.com/techDirectory/_PROGMAN.GIF

Principles of Metro UI Decoded. http://www.riagenic.com/archives/487

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