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In the Face of Android, Why Should Nokia Stick With MeeGo?

Posted by timothy on from the worse-name-than-gimp dept.

GMGruman writes "In September, Symbian 3 was Nokia's latest great hope for becoming relevant in the modern smartphone market. Now comes word that the Symbian Foundation is shutting down, ending the Symbian 3 and Symbian 4 efforts. Nokia is now banking on MeeGo, a collaboration with Intel whose release date — and fit to smartphones — is highly uncertain. InfoWorld's Ted Samson thinks that it's time for Nokia to swallow its pride and stop pretending it will ship MeeGo in time to matter, and instead consider adopting Android — or even Windows Phone 7, which after all might finally support copy and paste by the time Nokia decides to hitch its mobile wagon to a new horse."

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  1. yeah, right... by Kludge · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Porting a python run time would be a pain in the butt. And even if it worked what libraries would it have?

    I wrote a python script on my laptop that grabs some data off the network and displays it in a GTK window for the user. I then copied that program to my N900 and it just worked. Try that on your Droid.

  2. Re:maybe by RichiH · · Score: 4, Interesting

    > Google can ensure products follow standards better

    Pray tell me: Whose standards will those products follow once there is only one mobile OS that matters?