On 14/02/11, George Ingram wrote: > Hi Mark! I agree, but you have totally overlooked Intel.(See their > statement on Friday in response to Nokia joint announcement with > Microsoft). I don't think Intel will take the fumble by Nokia more > than a bump in the road.
Perhaps even a bonus opportunity to push their non-ARM SoC. > Speaking of Road, look at Intel's Road Map; How many rice grain size > (22nm wafer) CPUs can you get into a SmartPhone form factor? Why do > you think they have been working on advanced graphics capabilities > on SoC. But will they have that hardware ready in 2011? > I have suggested that Intel will want to capture the MeeGoers ASAP > as their own Mindshare before someone else does. That would be interesting but atm their only public focus for MeeGo is on their Atom netbooks. Not even tablets let alone handheld or IVI. Their website (public brochure) is still terribly conflicted with Moblin and the forums have messages asking how to get rid of the default MeeGo UI. Not overwhelingly encouraging. > In the meantime many of you have overlooked the work (85 percent of > what is required in development to deliver Meego 1.2 and 1.3 can be > developed in a Virtual Machine emulation on top of the Ubuntu Kernel, > so what is holding us up! That is obviouly important and useful but it's not the same thing as a real world device with a capacitive touch screen (unlike the N900). > It is clear that continued discussion around "whoa is me" and the hand > ringing is counterproductive. We have seen this before! My sentiments exactly and the main reason I suggest a co-op bulk buy of any kind of hardware that will support the Handheld UX asap, if such a venture were possible. To me it would be the best "up yours" to Nokia and prove to the rest of the world (users, devs and OEMs) that MeeGo is not a joke and is, more importantly, a viable prospect for mobile phones. We have about 6 months grace before WP gets all the buzz and I fear that once it's entrenched as "the 3rd way" it really is all over for handheld MeeGo. Little more than a novelty for linux nerds to hack on. --markc _______________________________________________ MeeGo-community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community
