Posts tagged Mobile OS

The Great App Store Tug-of-War Commences

Feb 22nd

Posted by Neil Shah in Mobile Handsets

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Recently, at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona some of the world’s largest MNOs have unified themselves behind the idea of a single platform “Wholesale Applications Community” where mobile application developers will be able to flock in and develop applications for which will theoretically be the largest app store in the world serving a broad range of mobile subscribers.

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Nokia & Intel Unite To Create MeeGo (a Linux Based OS)

Feb 15th

Posted by Neil Shah in Business Analysis

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Continuing in the battle of providing superior User Experience with an open platform strategy, Nokia & Intel have announced a partnership to merge Nokia’s Maemo OS and Intel’s Moblin OS giving birth to the Linux based MeeGo OS. This is going to be the second major strategic move by Nokia after announcing Symbian as an open source platform. It will definitely create some disrupting competitive waves to the competitors like Google with open source Android, Apple with Mac OSX and Microsoft’s to be launched Windows Mobile 7.

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