Asked 10 years, 4 months ago. Active 5 years, 10 months ago. Viewed 1k times. Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. From the Nokia Glossary : MeeGo 1. Other questions: What is maemo? Is maemo same as MeeGo Harmattan? Improve this answer. Forums are saying that it will come with Dalvik VM? Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Others are, to put it mildly, skeptical of the technology choices. Q : Before we begin, anything to disclose?
A : Indeed. A few suppliers of competitive technology such as Canonical and Microsoft are clients, while others — Apple and Google, most notably — are not. That should about cover it, I think. What is MeeGo? A : MeeGo is, in essence, a merging of the maemo and Moblin projects. Q : And those projects, in turn, are?
The project, based on Fedora but coming in other flavors, is — like Maemo — intended for non-traditional devices such as netbooks. Q : How long is the merge supposed to take? Q : So this project is basically a consolidation of two projects that were competing, essentially, in the same space? A : There was some minimal distance between the projects, actually: maemo, for example, was never aimed at the full fledged netbook market. When Nokia entered that market, remember, they went Windows 7 , not maemo.
But to the point, yes: this can be considered market consolidation. A : It certainly can be. It is not clear, for example, that either project had sufficient oxygen to sustain itself indefinitely.
So by joining forces, they have a better opportunity on paper. Q : Why do you say on paper? The packaging systems are different, the UI frameworks are different, the applications are different, and so on. Meaning that not only is the merger likely to be complicated, both communities are likely to be significantly impacted. Q : Can you give an example? A : Consider the packaging format. Moblin, being Fedora based, uses.
In this article: breaking news , BreakingNews , intel , maemo , meego , moblin , mwc , mwc , Mwc , nokia. The first release of MeeGo is expected in the second quarter of with devices launching later in the year.
This will create a unified Linux-based platform that will run on multiple hardware platforms across a wide range of computing devices, including pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems.
Called MeeGo, the open software platform will accelerate industry innovation and time-to-market for a wealth of new Internet-based applications and services and exciting user experiences. MeeGo-based devices from Nokia and other manufacturers are expected to be launched later this year. This announcement strengthens the Nokia and Intel relationship, and builds on the companies' broad strategic collaboration announced in June Intel and Nokia now invite participation in MeeGo from existing Maemo and Moblin global communities and across the communications and computing industries.
Nokia and Intel had also invested heavily in the development of the fourth generation network technology WiMAX, which was competing in parallel with LTE. The better compatibility, reliability and actual transmission speeds offered by LTE has made it the technology of choice for network operators when building their 4G networks. Even today, 2. This offered Nokia easy and simple option when choosing a new strategy since Windows Phone was designed to use this same platform.
Intel was afraid it would be left as the underdog with its x86 SoC, and many of the things related to the development of the operating system were completely left for Nokia to deal with. In the spring of Intel offered a smartphone platform codenamed Moorestown to the market, which consisted of an application processor codenamed Lincroft manufactured on a 45 nanometer process, a Langwell peripheral device chip on a 65 nm process and a separate baseband modem.
The SoCs of the Atom Z6xx chipset family ran at a clock speed of 1. The Moorestown platform was never released to the smartphone market and it was abandoned by Intel. In early , Intel talked about the Medfield platform, manufactured with a nanometer line width, in which all of the functions are integrated in one Penwell-codenamed SoC. In addition to tens of their own people they hired consultants from outside of Nokia. As a result a decision was made that the combination of Symbian and MeeGo was not sufficient for a succesful long term strategy.
Apparently another version of N9 was in development for Verizon, codenamed RM Even if N9 would have been released in North America in , Nokia could not have had a successor with LTE support to offer for a long time in the fast paced smartphone market. Elop stated in a memo sent to his employees that Nokia might only have one MeeGo phone in the market by the end of year Devices based on the OMAP SoC used in the N9 could have been brought to the market at a tight schedule, but an ecosystem to compete with Apple and Google would have had to be built around it without LTE support and the support from North American operators.
As a result of the Intel cooperation there was no mid-priced chipset that could have competed against the cheaper Android phones, and Symbian was no longer able to do so. The organization had the authority to make decisions, less people worked on the project, the internal and external arm wrestling at Nokia had finally stopped and everyone was focusing on finishing the product. Nokia was the market leader and others thought that Nokia had too much power in the MeeGo project. At the end of negotiations were held with Samsung, LG, and Sony Ericsson, but none of them decided to cooperate with Nokia to develop the MeeGo ecosystem and the big European operators retreated from the investments simultaneously.
Elop told a story about a man working on an oil rig, who wakes up at night to an explosion realizing the whole platform is on fire. The man manages to get to the edge of the rig and needs to make a decision whether to stay on and die, or jump 30 meters into the dark and freezing water.
He had to make a decision. The man decided to jump, even though under regular circumstances he would not have even considered it. At this time, however, the conditions were far from normal. The man survived the drop and the chilling water. After being rescued he noted that the burning rig caused a radical change in his behavior.
Elop said he had discussed in the last months with the shareholders, operators, developers, suppliers and employees, and said that Nokia also stood on the edge of the burning platform. With the platform Elop referred to Nokia mobile phones, smartphones, MeeGo and Symbian operating systems. There are many of them. According to Elop, in Nokia did not have the product which would be even close to the experience of iPhone published in , and Android had overtaken Symbian in the smartphone market share in two years.
MeeGo was expected to be a winning platform for high-end smartphones, but according to Elop, at the current timescale Nokia would have had only one MeeGo device in the market by the end of The battle between devices had turned to a battle between ecosystems, which include software developers, marketing, web search services, social media and location services in addition to hardware and software systems. Nokia announced that it was to develop new features to the platform in areas where the company is a market leader, for example in digital imaging features.
Nokia would provide expertise on hardware design, language support, and software localisations and help bring Windows Phone to new price points, market segments and new geographical areas. Nokia and Microsoft were to pursue a close partnership in marketing.
The plan was also to make a mutual product development plan for their mobile devices and services. Nokia released its first Windows Phone 7. The Finnish Jolla Ltd. The company, which employs about 60 people at the moment, continues the development of the MeeGo operating system and smartphones from where Nokia left it. The MeeGo-based operating system using RPM packaging is codenamed Sailfish and Jolla will license it to device manufacturers in spring Sailfish is being built on an open source project Qt and Mer Core and it scales to be used in smartphones, tablets and televisions among other devices.
Jolla will present the user interface it has developed at the Slush event that takes place on November 21stnd. Jolla intends to reveal information and availability of its Sailfish device before Christmas.
According to a press release by Jolla, they are gathering partners including semiconductor manufacturers, OEM and ODM manufacturers, operators and retailers. They are also raising approximately million euros for building an ecosystem around the Sailfish operating system. These operations will be managed from Hong Kong, since the company believes the next big change in the mobile market is to happen in China. The teams were extremely international, occasionally the job assignments were very interesting and at best they were really committed to their work.
Many stated that they were proud of the N9. The organization, however, was led from an ivory tower. Towards the end the individual developers had no say in, or even worse no knowledge about, the decisions and changes that took place in the background. Many Nokia employees we interviewed were, at the time, focused on their specific task, and not aware of the bigger picture of MeeGo development. The technology was developed in various teams, which did not communicate with each other.
No one made sure that the pieces of the puzzle fit together. Nokia developed Harmattan and MeeGo alongside with Symbian. Resources went to a huge waste, when both platforms were developing their own Qt-based user interface design tools. Applications were being simultaneously developed on top of unfinished development tools. Furthermore, the communication within the Maemo team was lacking. The development mistakes made with Fremantle were repeated in the development of Harmattan.
There was no clear vision of Harmattan, about what kind of a product it was going to be.
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