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That's still missing the point and exactly what _Android_ not did. While MeeGo is quite close to your standard "Linux on the Desktop" (Sorry, was hard to resist
by darklajid 16y ago
That's still missing the point and exactly what _Android_ not did. While MeeGo is quite close to your standard "Linux on the Desktop" (Sorry, was hard to resist), Google suffered from a lot of NIH based design decisions.
On the other hand they probably chose the easier route for themselves (instead of solving their problems in a codebase that's outside of their control) by creating things from scratch although "standard" alternatives were available.
In short: I'd say it probably _is_ hard and I'd even go so far as to say that MeeGo moving into Android would be pointless.
For code and effort sharing maemo/MeeGo was the better stack.