Earlier this Month MeeGo was not even touched on at Intel IDF. Fast forward two weeks and last night we knew that MeeGo will now become Tizen which was announcement by the Linux Foundation and Limo Foundation.
Today Scott Apeland (Director of Intel’s Developer Network) was not shy with the word Tizen.
Tizen is an Open Sourced Project which is Standard spaced, Cross Architecture software project that is going to support a wide range of devices including Smartphones, Tablets , TV and IVI which will be hosted by the Linux Foundation. Intel and Samsung will be Co-Chairs of the TSG with an Open Governance structure. First version of Tizen expected to be released Q1 2012 with devices to follow mid 2012.
Tizen takes the best of MeeGo and the best of Limo and adds a few more ingredients. MeeGo has a strong developer community and Limo has a Broad service provider and carrier support which meets their business model needs. HTML5 and WAC 2.0 will provide a software framework that will work across multiple software platforms which is the direction that the industry is going in.
Intel is Excited about HTML5 !
Here is the actual video:
Intel is very excited about Tizen and if the change has to be for MeeGo to change to Tizen I would at least expect them to be excited and they ARE ! There is currently no SDK available for Tizen but it is hoped that this will become available soon. Mr. Apeland also confirmed that existing MeeGo applications would be able to run on Tizen. This does not guarantee that future apps will also enjoy this level of compatibility but Intel will assist developers in porting over their application to HTML5.
The attendees of the KeyNote were treated to some books on HTML5, DVD and Linda.com subscription.
8 Response Comments
Limo is created for years, but no product comes out, so it’s simply a rubbish project. And it is too late to change the road, market will not stop and wait for one more year. HTML5 is an open standard, but the backend API is not cross-platform, so it can not be better than QML. So many people worked so hard for so long time for meego, you have no right to kill it yourself. We will not join your game again. What we need is exciting devices(like N9), not strange names of creatures.
Droping off QT? Revenge to Nokia ?? rope Samsung?? ridiculous decision. You are making a big mistake.
“Tizen takes the best of MeeGo and the best of Limo and adds a few more ingredients. MeeGo has a strong developer community …”
The best of MeeGo? The best of MeeGO is Qt and it seems this is not a part of Tizen.
MeeGo has a strong developer community, yes. But a big part of this developer community will not follow to Tizen, because they are interessted in Qt and not in a HTML5 only system.
No Qt = no interest.
Figure that one out and this Tizen business may go somewhere.
Ugh, another new “Web 2.0 operating system”, likely locked to any other type of development. This is what completely killed my interest in WebOS, they have to realize that native development still has a place to fill, as much as the marketing directors and other PR people would like think otherwise. Qt is an excellent platform for developing applications and not making it the primary development platform on this “new OS” would appear to be a purely political decision to spite Nokia. Personally I will have no part in that.
I guess the only remaining hope for a decent and open platform is if the Nokia N9 succeeds beyond expectations and Elop is ousted so Nokia can continue making Maemo/MeeGo phones… It looks like I will be keeping my N9 for quite a few years down the road.
“Mr. Apeland also confirmed that existing MeeGo applications would be able to run on Tizen.”
Does this mean TiZen will support Qt apps?
what dose that mean for people who already have meego devices ? are they good and dead ? no more support ? so many questions ?
Intel have said that they will support existing Meego devices and although it hasn’t been announced an upgrade path th Tizen seems feasable