{"id":1896,"date":"2011-09-06T11:15:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T09:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2011-09-06T11:15:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T09:15:18","slug":"meego-becomes-a-no-go-for-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/meego-becomes-a-no-go-for-intel\/","title":{"rendered":"MeeGo becomes a no go for Intel"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the moment it is nothing more than an unconfirmed rumour but it seems that Intel is to stop development on MeeGo. MeeGo was a partnership between Intel and Nokia<\/a>. The main reason for the partnership was to help Intel with the adoption of their mobile processors (Intel Atom) as ARM has been the dominant CPU<\/a> for device manufacturers. ARM, a little company from Britain has given the big corporate (Intel<\/a>) a few headaches. Intel I believe thought that Nokia<\/a> would choose the MeeGo platform for their top of the line smart phones.<\/p>\n

In all honesty the concept was a good idea but it was doomed from the beginning. Think back to the infamous \u201cburning platform\u201d email that Steven Elop wrote to Nokia staff members. Nokia has been losing market share to a number of other manufacturers and a case can be made that the company lost focus. Thus Nokia partnering with Microsoft<\/a> makes sense for both companies.<\/p>\n

Meego was never destined to compete with the other mobile operating systems; it was merely to help Intel regain lost ground on ARM. Secondly it was potentially a way for Intel to help deal with their longstanding software partner Microsoft. Microsoft no longer sees Intel as the only manufacturer of CPU\u2019s. The problem that the current mobile CPU\u2019s from Intel have is that they are resource intensive. Battery life and mobile operating systems are two very interlinked themes for manufacturers and users.<\/p>\n

LG<\/a> and ZTE<\/a> were rumoured to have agreed to use MeeGo with support coming from China Mobile. At the time Google\u2019s purchase of Motorola Mobility<\/a> was not a factor. So there was a lot of potential for MeeGo but the latest changes to the mobile ecosystem have pretty much ensured that Meego will disappear.\u00a0 Will you consider going into a competitive market with an unproven operating system? I think not.<\/p>\n

At the moment there are quite a number of mobile operating systems:<\/p>\n