Monday, October 10, 2011

Is er Maemo/ Meego/ Mer dead?

Recently, Intel announced that it was dropping development on the Meego platform. Since Nokia dumped Meego in favour of Microsoft, the operating system is completely orphaned. Intel, in my humble opinion has made a silly mistake by not having a reference platform for its Atom chips.

The community has decided to take on this task on themselves and need to answer some of the biggest questions?

1. Who is their client? Who will set direction on the product?

2. Who is the customer? Who will pay for the efforts?

3. Who is the consumer? Whose needs will take priority?

Without a convincing answer to these questions, it will be tough going.