Guest post by “Intel Corp. said the MeeGo mobile operating system developed with Nokia has a future even after the Finnish handset maker’s decision to use Microsoft Corp.’s software in some devices.[..]Meego will be used in tablets this year, the CEO said. It will also be used in mobile phones and in embedded devices in the automotive industry , he said.”
It better be, mobile devices is a juice market Intel want’s to get in badly, and I’d really like to seem them there.
This billion dollar company want to diversify, since Windows broke the x86 monopoly value with ARM.
I think they will do some major software acquisitions and further invest in Meego to push an end to end hardware/software solution.
The margins in only selling hardware is going to get to thin in the next 10 years.
What are the odds Intel tries to buy Qt from Nokia
That would be great! Because after the “black Friday” of last week, Qt’s future is unknown (although Nokia is still saying that Qt will be his plain development platform for Symbian, Meego and for its next disruption).
With Intel, we all would know that we still have our favorite framework living and growing
With the KDE Free Qt Foundation agreement, Qt will remain free indefinitely, and if Nokia stops releasing Qt Free edition, the last free version is BSD (or compatible) licensed automatically. So, regardless, Qt will stay free in one form or another.
Yes, but any project backed for a company has far higher rates of evolution than pure open source projects.
I agree completely.
Intel can run the Trolltech part of the firm as a software service company and the R&D (something Intel is very, very good at) part of the Qt project would continue with a corporate backer with deep pockets and lots of time.
Of all the corps I can think of I imagine Intel would probably provide the best backing for Qt.
Intel prefer GTK, they picked Qt because Nokia wanted to, they will probably go back to GTK now…
/Qt consultant (me) worst fear
Intel actually likes Qt more. They went with GTK initially for other reasons, but mostly because the software Intel wanted to use at the time was GTK based, but not because Intel liked GTK itself all that much.
from all the announcements about Meego I get the impression it will only be used for PC/Laptop/Netbook/Tablet and not for phone.
Seeing that Nokia normally uses relatively slow hardware to build decent to lower priced phone, I am guessing (yes, this is just a guess) that Meego just turned out to be to slow to run on most of Nokia’s hardware. Anyone has any theory to support/disprove this theory?
I think Maemo was an excellent phone OS and if Nokia would have continued to develop Maemo instead using Symbian and pushing Meego, Nokia would not be now in this current situation – phone sales decreasing, the lack of a good OS and the need to embrace Windows.