“Analyst” says MeeGo is a Joke, advises Nokia to Ditch MeeGo and go for WP7
I do love these so called analysts that seem to take inspiration from Gizmodo. Apparently, somebody called Adnaan Ahmad, Berenberg Bank analyst has written an open letter to Stephen Elop and Steve Ballmer of which part says,
“Get rid of your own proprietary high-end solution (MEEGO)–it’s the biggest joke in the tech industry right now and will put you even further behind Apple and Google. Focus your high-end portfolio around WP7, and over time you can take the cost down (that’s Steve’s job and cost base) to get this into the mid-range market.”
I don’t even know where to begin with the whole ditching MeeGo suggestion. It’s pretty late and I have a really early start tomorrow. But here goes:
- You AA (or anyone), have not seen what Final MeeGo handset looks like on a Nokia handset. How on earth would you know how MeeGo will pan out? Are you really suggesting that as Nokia are putting a lot of effort into MeeGo to reclaim high end to just go, “Feck this, let’s put all this money and time down the drain and invest in something that, well though too early to tell, people don’t actually like that much”.
- Linux Foundation sees future of computing in MeeGo. Seamless device interactions. Are you fearful of what MeeGo can accomplish and would rather attempt to scare and snuff the competition before they even leave the starting block?
- MeeGo tablet (vanilla) looks fantastic, MeeGo netbook is getting praises on what a netbook experience should be. MeeGo TV is pushing boundaries of set top boxes. There’s MeeGo IVI car infotainment too. All capable of sharing a fragmentation less ecosystem – one app works on all. Not to mention that those Qt Apps running on MeeGo devices can also run on the millions of Symbian devices too.
- http://mynokiablog.com/2011/01/31/video-state-of-meego-community-new-businesses-with-jim-zemlin-50-min-meego-the-future-of-mobile
- Nokia has to let MeeGo run. There are too many good things going for MeeGo right now to just give it up at the last hurdle. If it fails catastrophically then, perhaps then start thinking about dropping it. If ever there would be WP7 that should be in conjunction with MeeGo not either or.
- You say so profoundly that MeeGo is a joke? For what out of the thousand words you have used is your reason?
- Or perhaps the reason may be answered by the answer to this: Did you go to Gizmodo’s “I hate Nokia 101 class”
Weren’t analysts sceptical about Android during its infancy? No where near the amount of apps, devices were poor. Hmmm.
Well here’s to what Nokia will announce on Feb 11 (9 days away). Scobleizer has some thoughts on what he’s expecting the “Norwegian” Nokia to do. I haven’t read it yet. I’m going to bed.
http://scobleizer.com/2011/02/02/feb-11-stephen-elops-nokia-revolution-what-we-should-expect/
via SlashGear
Note: As a Nokia geek/fanboy (NOT an analyst or anyone with an approximation of that profession) I’m always going to be eternally hopeful of Nokia’s situation so bear that in mind :p. There’s glimmers of signs that justify such hope. Here’s wishing it all comes good for Nokia in the end.
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i think it’s stupid to say that nokia should go to WP7, i deal with every type of phone on a daily basis. WP7 is just about the worst OS i have ever seen, it’s got more security settings hard set into it than the iphone, it’s UI is square, bland and ugly. It’s games cost more, it’s apps are few and far between. Andriod’s not bad, but it’s not for Nokia, as someone said in another post, most of the andriod phones look the same, plus Meego and Android are based on the same software, Meego is really just Android if it was made and designed by Nokia, meaning that there should be nothing to stop more apps being made for it, not just QT apps, but the same apps the android currently runs. personally i’m excited about Meego and can’t wait to see where nokia takes the mobile world with this.
What he sees is MeeGo didn’t deliver. This was not because the platform itself, but the market does not see that. Actually MeeGo makes a lot of sense to the market, but they doubt it will deliver. IMO the message is “prove that the MeeGo promise works, or change to a deterministic path”. Or “choose the Samsung way, Bada/Android/WM7 but don’t any more bet on only one wannabe platform.”
Now Android is good for google, the HW makers and the users, but no good for operators. Windows is a relatively safe bet, and it could offer a stable business.
IMO MeeGo has too much potential to be just ditched. Since mobile business is now a fashion business, and Symbian is out of fashion in the press, unfortunately that is going down in the coming years, whatever we do. Right now is only a transition path to MeeGo?
Since the Qt/QML move, the platform itself is not any more highly important to Nokia. Of course it’s nice to have the smartest Linux gurus improve your engine for cheaper than Microsoft, but they could get an extremely good deal with MS.
Another question is what to do with S40. I expect it to be aligned to Qt/QML, but on top of a very optimized and thin OS. I would do it with a stripped-down Linux/MeeGo, and put Qt/QML on top. Then MeeGo will be the desktop-compatible bigger, fatter brother, serving for high end phones, tablets, home entertainment and enterprise phones. In this way we could have a homogenous technology portfolio.
If I see any space for Windows here, it should be on an isolated market, e.g. the enterprise phones. From there we can move either way: if MeeGo delivers, takes this place too, if not, then hard decision comes.
If Android is good for manufacturers, why lose the Sony Ericsson and LG market share and Motorola predicts that they will make a loss next quarter.
Nokia has invested billions of dollars in software industry in recent years, such as OVI and Navteq to choose other than Symbian and MeeGo would be to throw away the money.
I think meego is DOA
I think you should go back to Engadget or Gizmodo or wherever.
wp7 what a joke, my sugestion xchange java runtime on symbian or s40 n change it to dalvic virtual matchine from android. Now symbian could run native symbian with Qt and Qml app also android app.
Based on what I have read and heard over the past 3 years I am quite confident that first MeeGo device will have at least one unique feature set which is not available any other mobile platform yet. There are some hints already shown in various places but so far nobody has taken any interest of them.
Anyway yhe key issue will be how the handheld UX compare to iOS and Android. It will be the deciding factor whether MeeGo will be successful or not!
I am waiting to read the first comments from Engadget when the N9 is released. If there are still some comments that Nokia should go for Android then I am sure that someone is paying to them to write those comments or the writers are just idiot.
You may think of artificial intelligence such as Nokia Bots and Nokia Situations.
No, something that is not available today nor even discussed in public.
However one key person in Nokia showed it in one presentation but because it was so outside of the envelope nobody understood it. The presentation is available on net if you know what to look for.
what shall i look for?
MeeGo’s arrival not far & every1,fanboys & haters are watching closely.Countdown 2 MWC.
Hahaha,that analyst is just a lunatic.
I thing the BIGGEST REASON OF SUCH A BIASED COMMENTS IS TO BREAKDOWN THE MORALE OF NOKIA COMPANY.
This is bcoz NOKIA IS AN EUROPEAN COMPANY AND ALL SOFTWARE AND PC COMPANY BELONGS TO AMERICA.
TRUTH IS ALWAYS BITTER-AMERICANS BUSINESSMEN ARE ARROGANT.
They need to stop messing around, get MeeGo out NOW!! the market is passing them by, quit screwing around Nokia, get PR2.0 out ASAP with the new UI, get MeeGo out now.
Apple has proved you don’t need all the features out at time of release, hell they sell a boat load with so many bugs, this constant pushing back on releases is the thing thats killing them. Even the N97, as one of the worst phones Nokia has made, still sold a shed load.
I’ve seen many post where the poster suggest Nokia to use android. I am against with them. If Nokia choose android then why to buy Navteq or others and why to use billions of dollar for improving symbian or meeego. Yeah its right that now a days Nokia is facing problems in market share with symbian against android or ios. But I don’t think Nokia will remain lossing market share. It will be back soon in its real position (Insallah). I have an idea for them who suggest these kinds of things to Nokia. They should post that Nokia should merge with htc or samsung or lg etc. So that Nokia will never lose market share.
Nokia should move to Android if they want to survive otherwise they will ‘die’
keep your stupid android away from Nokia. Thank you.
I get what he’s saying: he doesn’t slam the technical abilities, whatever they are, of Meego.
The argument is a market traction one.
At this stage of the game, by the time Meego will be widely available in most markets it’ll likely be towards the later part of this year.
At that point, what’s Meego’s advantage from an end user’s perspective? I can’t think of one.
The perfect analogy, for me, is the Zune HD; Microsoft released this whiz bang, nice, mainly music playing media device….at a point when stand alone player sales are shrinking and the device category is led by things like the iPod Touch or Sandisk Sansa players.
In other words, it’s really late, and I’m not sure what Meego brings to the party.
“proprietary”? seriously?
Meego is supported by the Linux Foundation.
You can’t get any open then that.