The new platform evolved from nokia's meamo and intel's moblin is going to called as Meego. This platform is going to support both PC's as well as handsets. As expected PC line of the platform is headed by Intel and Handset line is headed by Nokia. MeeGo is based on ubuntu linux. Linux is open source and now even MeeGo is. More and more modules are being released and being made a part of the MeeGo source to make the OS better.
Though these platforms are merged to give competition competition to google's android its too late in the game. However, we need to see how it evolves. Earlier nobody expected anyone to replace the dominance of Iphone which is now overtaken by Android. Anyway for the developers its good news that there are multiple mobile platforms being made open source. This increases the competition and mobiles and PC's are expected to go much cheaper in the coming days.
Mobiles and netbooks using the meego platform is expected to be released late in the year 2011 For the developers interested in getting the source of the same please visit their official website meego.com.
Looking at the future since many platforms are becoming more and more open source the future market seems to be heading towards the applications. The market for the platforms seems to be diminishing day by day. So for any platform to be successful it depends on how good the ecosystem of the applications is developed. Android now has many good applications in its market and is increasing at a tremendous pace. For meego to be success and if it were to pose any challenge then its applications market needs to provide some exciting apps.
Talking about the future of Nokia, it has been dominating the market with its symbian OS. Symbian is the best when it comes to low cost phones. However, looking at the future focus seems to be shifting towards high end phones. Since nokia owns both the OS Symbian and MeeGo it would be doubtful if it uses its resources in developing both the mobile platforms. MeeGo is the way ahead for high end phones. How far this challenges the dominance of Android phones needs to be seen.
The applications are being developed in QT. It has an appealing UI and has good tools for application developers. For android to pull the developers into Android it had to start Android developer challenge with some free goodies to be won. However, since applications in MeeGo is being developed in QT many applications are readily available. For application developers it is a good time to start developing QT applications and enter the MeeGo environment. This is because there is relatively lesser competition to compete with and the applications written in QT can be deployed in multiple platforms. Are you up for it ???
