The community is weighing in and discussing this morning's news. Here are some highlights:
- Peter@Maemo says: "Let me remind you what we have said about Maemo 5: Maemo 5 will support OMAP3 processors i.e. ARM Cortex A8 technology, not more, not less."
- He goes on to say: Maemo and Moblin will continue to exist as software platforms, no change to current situation but we will align more of what is underneath the UI framework and APIs.
Facts: Intel and Nokia combined have a broad understanding of mobile computing - both development and marketing. Nokia has had vast success in handsets, feature phones, and smartphones and Intel is enjoying many years as the top mobile CPU for laptops and now netbooks and ultra-portables. As these two types of platforms converge into a "middle device," it makes sense to bring the power-players in each together to develop some standards.
Through the success of the iPhone and Android, the whole mobile market has learned that platforms MUST have a strong third party developer base. Intel and Nokia will work very hard to make Moblin and Maemo cooperate with each other even though they will have different styles and hardware platforms. This will make it easier for third party developers to write applications that can be released on both platforms without major rewrites. This will encourage developers to adopt both Maemo and Moblin on their respective platforms.
I could be totally wrong, though. What does everyone else think?
3 comments:
The whole thing sounds like hype. If I were to bet on this...I would bet that there isn't a physical device to come from this in under a year. I loved reading these comments on the announcement:
http://www.intomobile.com/2009/06/23/live-blog-intel-and-nokia-to-collaborate-on-a-new-class-of-device.html
Pretty funny to read the interpretation of what everyone was thinking listening in.
I'm guessing that intel and nokia will try to take on the iphone but fail because they won't spend the time and money on a good solid UI Design and will be incredibly late into the game. Best of luck to them though. They can have an awesome relationship, but will have to kiss the ass of a mobile vendor. I guess I just see too many obstacles to success for them.
Yeah, pretty much a non-informational event. The main thing I got out of it was:
1) Intel and Nokia will work on some common hardware stuff at some point, in some way, for some market.
2) Moblin and Maemo will cross-pollinate low level innovations/advancements.
So, even the main points were partially fluff ... and the rest was definitely fluff.
I just hope that Maemo doesn't end up getting watered down in the process.
I don't think maemo will support X86 (intel atom). Only Moblin will do
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