How about WEBOS? HP seems desperate now and thinking to grab its tablet if goes down to $200. I have buddies who used this as small form factor servers like for open vpn use.
Anuerin Diaz <[email protected]> wrote: >Might not necessarily be a dead end as some manufacturers are/will release >phones based on Meego. I cant remember if it was Lg or Samsung. They might >just be hedging their bets but at least its not a total end for the Meego >platform. >On Aug 11, 2011 10:49 AM, "Rafael R. Sevilla" <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thursday, 11 August, 2011 08:53 AM, Holden Hao wrote: >>> What do you folks think about the N9. It is not yet out but it is set >>> to be launched before the year ends. >> >> I'd buy it if it weren't a dead end. A real app ecosystem will likely >> never develop for Meego, now that Stephen Elop has announced his >> company's sold its soul to the devil and orphaned Meego as part of the >> deal. While it's supposed to be a true GNU/Linux system that is >> supposed to be able to run native GNU/Linux apps, the very thought of >> using applications with interfaces designed with a mouse and keyboard in >> mind on a touch screen makes me cringe. >> >> On a side note, I have no idea why some Nokia apologists out there don't >> seem to question the wisdom of Elop's maneuvers. The only other >> alternative they had was to run with Android, and they say that doing so >> would have made Nokia another "me too" company like Samsung, LG, HTC, >> and all the rest. But how is going WP7 any different? Samsung, LG, and >> HTC also make WP7 phones, and going by their dismal sales in comparison >> to their Android counterparts (it has been said that the patent >> royalties paid by these Android manufacturers to Microsoft gets them >> more money than WP7 does!) it seems highly doubtful that Nokia can do >> any better, unless Microsoft shares with them some secret sauce that >> they aren't giving to their other WP7 partners, and that seems extremely >> unlikely to say the least, given that it isn't in Microsoft's interest >> to hold back on anything they have that might give their platform an >> edge over iOS and Android. >> >> -- >> You are sick, but now you are well again. And there's work to be done. >> > >_________________________________________________ >Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
