Jay Hollingum - Works in IT

Reading through some reviews and articles of the Mobile World Congress 2010  and seeing Samsung's new Wave phone using their new platform Bada , reminded me of this post about MeeGo , that I made a while ago. The fact is that it is yet another system to develop on and then support, or if the angle of the phone companies is to have a selling point for their phones, whether the average consumer on the street even cares about what operating system their phone uses, unless buying in to a brand like Apple, Google or Microsoft. Developer documentation for Bada can be found at this site - http://developer.bada.com/apis/index.do .

It looks like yet another operating system is going to be developed for smartphones and mobiles and released to the world. Doing the rounds on the news sites and blogs is that story that Nokia and Intel have joined forces to work on a new OS. The spin is that this Linux based OS will not just be aimed at one hardware platform but can be scaled to be used on smartphones , TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems, or netbooks and anything in between. MeeGo is a merging of Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo projects. With the successful uptake of Android in the mobile world and the related Chrome OS to be released, Windows 7 Mobile doing something to restore Microsoft's credibility, Palm entering the fray with their WebOS, the iPhone OS being so successful with the iPhone, and Symbian to mention but a few, how much more room in the market is there for OSs or is this two global corporations trying to emulate Google's success in their release of Android. Unless, of course...