MacDailyNews Take: MeGoo? Sorry, MeeGo? They should’ve just named it YAMOS (Yet Another Mobile Operating System).
Parker and Taylor continue, “MeeGo will combine Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin, which are both Linux-based operating systems, and the first devices using the new platform are expected in the second half of this year,” Parker and Taylor report. “Like Android, MeeGo software will be freely available to manufacturers of smartphones and other consumer electronics devices. Software developers will also be able to use MeeGo on an open source basis, so that they can build applications that run on any devices featuring the operating system.”
MacDailyNews Take: Stuffing the marketplace full of superfluity only benefits Apple.
Parker and Taylor continue, “Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia’s chief executive, told the Financial Times that MeeGo would be likely to feature on a broader range of devices than Android, which has just started to be used on netbooks as well as smartphones… Mr Kallasvuo denied the creation of MeeGo would kill off Symbian, the company’s longstanding operating system for smartphones, which some analysts believe falls short of Apple’s iPhone OS platform…”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “gomer37” for the headline inspiration.]
Who comes up with these silly names, based on the name alone it sounds doomed to fail..
MeToo is more like it.
MeeGo looking for a way to stop go apeshit over Apple’s runaway success.
MeeGo nowhere… for about 4 years, thats how much they are behind with this effort.
MeGoPoo.
When MeGoPoo, I take my iPhone, not some piece of shit from Nokia and Intel.
MDN MW: “industry.” Apple has the “industry” by the balls.
Yikes… I hope they didn’t pay anyone to come up with that name! It just invites unflattering variations and comparisons: MeeToo, MeeGoo, JooJoo…
So “some” analysts believe Symbian falls short of iPhone OS? Who are these brilliant people? They have a terrific ability to grasp the obvious!
Blind as Mr. Magoo!
Haven’t you guys heard about the Windows Phone 7? It’s going to Change Everything.
Mr Magoo has a smart phone now?
MeeGo sounds like an Asian translation of MobileMe.
At least Apple has made the mobile industry slowly realize one thing: it’s the software, stupid!
MeeTooShay.
Has anyone checked to see that this isn’t something rude in some language?
Remember the fiasco with the name “Zune”?
meego…probaby meego.com?!? just shorten it to me.com
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Why MeeGo doesn’t conflict symbian os as Nokia’s chief said? I can only see big conflict unless they plan to dump symbian in the future but then what’s the point of porting symbian to open source recently?
Another curiousity:
why don’t companies just use Darwin (the apple os kernel) but build their Apis, other things and layers on top just like apple did. Darwin is open source and it’s free right?
Apple succeeds because it is one company, integrating (and controlling) the hardware and software to work as one product. Because of this advantage, Apple can follow one strategy, have one agenda, react quickly when needed, and ultimately give customers what they want.
Almost everyone else now seems resigned to follow the opposite strategy – first Microsoft, then Google, and now this Nokia-Intel partnership – which is the old “you do the hardware and we do the software (because we are lazy)” approach. In consumer electronics, this strategy is ineffective as a counter to Apple. The only player left, trying to play Apple’s game, is Palm (and they are too far behind at this point to really matter).
“Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo… told the Financial Times that MeeGo would be likely to feature on a broader range of devices than Android,”
And that’s the problem with Android. So this will be worse.
MeeGoo — inspired by Nintendo no doubt,
Wii
Mee
Makes me think
MeGoo … yuk!
if me go get a meego then me go get stupid.
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@ken1w
in my opinion, both can work. Apple’s vertical integration and the software co nd harwares co partnerships.
Google’s case with htc was pretty good, not talking about customers service experience but in terms of hrdware and software integration. It was good.
Microsoft also put up a good strategy, ie to narrow down the specifications for device manufacturers to better integration.
I can see both approaches can work well.
Me Go?
I just went … and bought an iPhone.
MeeGo, amigo, WTF?!? Why can’t these clowns come up with some human-sounding product names?
I would NEVER pay for a Zune just because of the name alone. Same with MeeGo home now. Wow, corporate marketing standards have really slipped.
Peace.
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Olmecmystic
So, Knockia has 3 OSes now? Symbian, Maemo and Meego? Rigggghhht. Can they just kill two of them now?
Competition IS good. The entertainment value alone is priceless.