This video from MeeGo’s technical steering group is aimed at persuading app developers to sign up. MeeGo is an open-source Linux-based operating system for smartphones and tablets, developed initially by Nokia and Intel as a common successor of their. Unless MeeGo flops as badly as Intel’s Viiv multimedia platform, there’ll be plenty of MeeGo users out there to offer apps and services to.įor now, Intel and Nokia are marketing MeeGo to developers, not consumers.
MeeGo’s real clout is that it’s backed by the world’s largest chip manufacturer and the world’s largest mobile handset maker.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see a lot of Android apps ported to MeeGo. Maemo is mostly based on open source code, and has been developed by Maemo Devices. Code:
Will it fly? I’m not going to predict that an open-source code base will guarantee a hit for MeeGo. “No-compromise Internet standards,” meaning MeeGo plans to work with nearly all websites built to well-known technical standards. The client application is currently available for Android, Blackberry, MeeGo and Symbian.Support for computationally intense, graphically oriented applications and connected services that will be developed by third parties.The major difference between Android and MeeGo is that Google, while making Android’s source code public, had a tightly closed development cycle, dumping onto developer’s massive amount of code with every release. Ian Fogg, an analyst at Forrester Research, said that the merger was a 'bold play' and placed MeeGo into a 'competitive position with Android, iPhone OS, Google's.
The two firms first announced their intention to collaborate in June 2009.
Performance optimizations, because speed matters on mobile devices. Also, this OS is projected as Open source as opposed to other competitors. The open-source software has been created by merging elements of Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo software.The website set up for the project promises these benefits: Beginning today, handset-specific source code currently under development toward the MeeGo v1.1 for Handsets release (expected Q4 2010) will be opened to the developer community to access.