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> How will their marketing handle this? Imagine three entirely incompatible operating systems. It's not like Nokia didn't have experience in that. Prior to th
by bostik 13y ago
> How will their marketing handle this? Imagine three entirely incompatible operating systems.
It's not like Nokia didn't have experience in that.
Prior to the Elopcalypse, even prior to Meego they already had three incompatible operating systems: S60 ("symbian") running on their smartphones; S40 (basically a fleet of slightly different J2SE variants) running on their feature phones; and debian-based Maemo running on N900.
Sure, Maemo as a platform started from the original N770 tablet, followed by N800 and N810. As far as I know, Maemo got most of the phone features from certain internal Linux projects, eventually making the N900 phone possible.
- jeswin 13y agoPlatforms didn't matter then, at all. Prior to the iPhone, people (mostly) used whatever software that came with the phone. There was no concept of an App Store. At least, not in the same way we have now. I bought the N800 when it came out. It was a geeky toy and had a nice community. But it was no platform to dislodge iOS or Android when Elop joined Nokia.