On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 10:46 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > GNOME Maemo: > I don't know their "concept" or target audience, but I can > imagine something like - > Create a "newspaper replacement" device for coffee shops, > the kitchen table, riding the train to work.
So the funny thing is that although that's who they are targeting their marketing towards at the moment, I rather suspect that they have their sights on a much different - and bigger - market: disconnected enterprise mobile computing. There is a burgeoning industry for mobile computing devices (gizmo for sales person to carry around, warehouse applications, medical devices, you name it) yet the usual problem with embedded devices is needing to develop such custom code for obscure processors, etc. What Nokia has done is different - it's a general purpose computing platform with a (more or less) commodity and powerful stack on top of it. I rather expect that what they're hoping is that people will flock to it as an easier place to write their apps [for] rather than having to muck about in the low level drudgery that usually accompanies having to do embedded work. AfC Toronto -- Andrew Frederick Cowie Managing Director Operational Dynamics Consulting http://www.operationaldynamics.com/ Management consultants specializing in strategy, organizational architecture, procedures to survive change, and performance hardening for the people and systems behind the mission critical enterprise. Available worldwide: Sydney +61 2 9977 6866 New York +1 646 472 5054 Toronto +1 416 848 6072 London +44 207 1019201 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list