Ryan Abel wrote: > On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:26 PM, lakestevensdental wrote: > >> If Nokia is really serious about being a larger player, they ought to >> aggressively develop and license the Maemo tablet OS to other >> manufacturers so that it has an opportunity to become a dominant player >> in the this growing market niche instead of just another somewhat >> self-limiting (soon to be abandoned) proprietary sand castle. > > Rather than building Maemo up as yet-another-Linux-distro, I'd > _rather_ see Nokia come inline with upstream and essentially ship > Ubuntu or Debian, but with their own differentiation on top. Hildon is > already open, somebody just needs to package it up to a sufficiently > usable state for other platforms (it's already in Debian and Ubuntu, > but simply installing it doesn't quite get you where you want to be). > > Though, if speculation based on certain rumors is to be believe, this > may actually already be happening. Give it another 6 months and I'm > sure we'll know for sure. > >> As it is, with other tablets, like Archos, coming out with their own >> OS/Linux variants, it seems the market is going in the direction of >> being more and more fractured with lots of reinventing of the same OS >> wheels over and over. The market would probably benefit having some >> central organization to manage and develop the OS so that hardware folks >> could focus more on developing cost effective powerful hardware rather >> than both hardware and OS/software. > > > Archos is a bad example. I doubt they'd ever be interested in anything > than their own proprietary, accessory peddling mess. Perhaps, but then what can you expect when there really aren't any suitable non-proprietary tablet OSs available. _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
