Former Nokia employees, La Jolla.Decided to leave Nokia, and he intends to continue to be Meego phone operating system.
The mainstream of that project is currently incarnated as Tizen,
which released the source code for its 1.0 iteration – “Larkspur” at the
end of April, along with a software development kit. However, Tizen has
yet to appear on any purpose-built phones.
Jolla certainly has the MeeGo props – CEO Jussi Humola was Director
of MeeGo Software integration and releases at Nokia, and COO Marc Dillon
spend six years in Nokia, latterly as a principal engineer for Maemo
and its successor Meego (via the hybrid Harmattan project). However,
small companies and the huge infrastructures and economies of handset
manufacture have often not been a happy combination. Project Openmoko,
which was dedicated to producing a truly open Smartphone OS(not a moviles baratos android and ipro i7), backed out of phone hardware after the release of the FreeRunner in 2009.
Not only is phone hardware complex to make, but one is up against
huge producers on the production side, and carriers on the distribution
side who are already locked in a best-enemies relationship withthose
huge producers. It’s very hard for a small producer – unless it has the
support of a serious corporations either through ownership or
sponsorship – to make progress.
The other problem is that “MeeGo” covers a multitude of sins – it was
envisioned as an operating system for netbooks, tablets, embedded
devices and phones, each with their own usage patterns. Although the
N9′s status as an open (for certain values of open) handset was
important to many, the things which made people actually sigh when they
used it were the industrial design – which has now found a home in a
somewhat mediated form in the high-end Nokia Lumia Windows Phones – and
the user interface.
There is little to say about the industrial design of phones that do
not yet exist – Jolla wants to release two phones before the end of the
year, one for the general audience and one for “the technical audience” –
that is, tinkerers. But the N9′s user interface is Nokia proprietary,
so it is reasonable to assume that, whatever UI finds it way onto Jolla
devices, it will not be the Nokia UI,not be android w008
UI yet.Jolla deserve credit for taking a courageous step into unknown
waters, and the interest their announcements so far have generated is a
hopeful sign. I will follow their progress with interest.
Perhaps to save nokia is not a good thing, it is better to re-start the next "nokia" perhaps Meego open.
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