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Yep Maemo is the way forward for Nokia. Symbian is a OS in the previous decade. But the problem is I don't think Nokia's top management has understood this at

by kasunh 17y ago

Yep Maemo is the way forward for Nokia. Symbian is a OS in the previous decade. But the problem is I don't think Nokia's top management has understood this at all. They are still favoring Symbian over Maemo and Maemo is only shipped with their internet tablets as of now. What they need to do is to make Maemo something like Android where any manufacture can contribute and use the OS and then design their smart phones for Maemo. Otherwise they will fail miserably in the smart phone race.

tjmc 17y ago
Agreed for the top end, but the market for low-mid range phones is really quite staggering. The UN estimates that over half the world's population now has a mobile phone (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/4933263/Half-of-worlds-population-owns-a-mobile-phone-UN-study-reveals.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/4933263/Half-of-w...) Symbian will serve that market quite nicely for a while yet...
daeken 17y ago
If Maemo is the way forward, there's a serious problem. At my previous company, we developed an 'applet' (one of the little widgets on the desktop) for the Nokia 770 and N800 tablets. I worked closely with the tablet team (all great people, for the record) and yet it was one of the most painful development processes I've ever experienced. Applets run in the context of the desktop app, so if there's a crash, the entire device reboots, period. The desktop toolchain worked well enough once set up, but it didn't have access to the wireless APIs so we were unable to use it. I eventually wrote an app for the device that loaded and ran our applet inside it, which made debugging with gdb possible, but even with this it was horrid. I'll be a Nokia fan for life after working with those guys, but I can't help but see Maemo in itself as one step forward, two steps back.
blub 17y ago
I can't see how Maemo is better than Symbian. Symbian is proven technology, it is running on a lot of successful smart-phones. Maemo is running just on some smart internet devices from Nokia. A similar Linux offering, Android, has gained a lot of mind-share within OSS enthusiast's circles, but little elsewhere.

by kasunh 17y ago

tjmc 17y ago

Agreed for the top end, but the market for low-mid range phones is really quite staggering. The UN estimates that over half the world's population now has a mobile phone (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/4933263/Half-of-worlds-population-owns-a-mobile-phone-UN-study-reveals.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/4933263/Half-of-w...) Symbian will serve that market quite nicely for a while yet...

daeken 17y ago

If Maemo is the way forward, there's a serious problem. At my previous company, we developed an 'applet' (one of the little widgets on the desktop) for the Nokia 770 and N800 tablets. I worked closely with the tablet team (all great people, for the record) and yet it was one of the most painful development processes I've ever experienced. Applets run in the context of the desktop app, so if there's a crash, the entire device reboots, period. The desktop toolchain worked well enough once set up, but it didn't have access to the wireless APIs so we were unable to use it. I eventually wrote an app for the device that loaded and ran our applet inside it, which made debugging with gdb possible, but even with this it was horrid. I'll be a Nokia fan for life after working with those guys, but I can't help but see Maemo in itself as one step forward, two steps back.

blub 17y ago

I can't see how Maemo is better than Symbian. Symbian is proven technology, it is running on a lot of successful smart-phones. Maemo is running just on some smart internet devices from Nokia. A similar Linux offering, Android, has gained a lot of mind-share within OSS enthusiast's circles, but little elsewhere.