Re:Nokia’s Burning Platform Memo (2011)
by pharmakom on Saturday September 03, 2022 @05:01AM
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How would Meego have succeeded where Windows Phone, which had Microsoft’s backing, failed?
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Re:Nokia’s Burning Platform Memo (2011)
by black3r on Saturday September 03, 2022 @10:02AM
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Applications. You can't take an existing Windows app and run it on Windows Phone, because the APIs are not there. You can take an existing Linux app and run it on Meego, because it's just a regular ARM Linux with a custom UI.
Re:Nokia’s Burning Platform Memo (2011)
by panick21_ on Sunday September 04, 2022 @12:07PM
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Microsoft backing is a help? Seems to me having the backing of the Linux community would have been way better.
Making UI for mostly existing apps, porting lots of existing apps over. Lots of free continues investments. Like you get other companies on board who use the same basic distro and apps and help with bug fixes and so on.
You can use the same distro on phones, tables and even sell laptops with that software on it.
And you can do all of that for no cost to anybody. Every single Nokia with Windows gives money away to Microsoft.