Report: Intel Stopping Development on MeeGo
Is Intel losing faith in Meego?
Rumor has it that Intel is temporarily stopping development on MeeGo, the Linux-based mobile OS it developed in cooperation with Nokia last year. Digitimes cites industry sources that say Intel is stopping development due to a lack of enthusiasm for the platform from hardware vendors. These sources say Intel will instead focus on hardware products, with its handset platforms to be paired with either Android or Windows Phone in 2012.
While the decision wouldn't surprise those who have been following Meego news (in May of this year, Intel's CEO Paul Otellini admitted that Nokia probably wasn’t the right partner for his company), Intel has said that it remains committed to MeeGo.
"We remain committed to MeeGo and open source, and will continue to work with the community to help develop and meet the needs of customers and end users," an Intel spokesperson told CNET.
Announced in February of 2010, MeeGo is essentially a mash-up of Nokia's Maemo OS and Intel's Moblin operating system. Nokia and Intel said at the time that they planned to have the open source OS run on both smartphones and netbooks, with support for ARM architecture and Intel's line of Atom CPUs.
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Bummer....
I quite like meego
I knew it wouldn't last! They only used each other for what ever type of technology that they could collect from each other. Anyway Nokia only makes the normal mobile phone types that are the ones that are cheap. They are good at making el cheapo mobile phones,so they should keep on making el cheapo mobile phones.
Not many have put up a post yet about this article,must not be much of an interest for people to post about.
How did I get a negative comment for #1? That doesn't make sense.
I've always liked meego, it looked slick and well written. It's a shame most of the good ideas never get discovered :s