Comment MeeGo: Actually a Linux (Score 1) 336
MeeGo is a Linux. That largely defines MeeGo and sets it apart. Oh sure, Android and countless other consumer electronics systems have Linux, but that distinction is relegated to some machinery under the hood kept far far away from users and often developers. MeeGo, on the other hand, is a Linux distribution, one with an integrated desktop environment that defines the distro, but it is still 'merely' a distro. It runs X. "Linux programs" will run on it.
Android threw out Linux. Nokia hopefully isnt dumb enough to hop on that bandwagon. Isnt dumb enough to turn over the fate of their company to an OS where they'll be able to have only the most meager means of distinguishing themselves, where distinguishing yourself will earn you animosity for fracturing the local ecosystem, where Nokia's existing code base will be useless.
Nokia can leverage huge code bases like GStreamer to get video conferencing, hardware supported media playing, to build DLNA systems on top of. You want that 21st century network functionality on Android? Have run rebuilding it chums. It's the same story, up and down, Android's core platform is tiny whereas the amount of Linux code out there to build off of is colossal.
Last, remember who bought Qt, and consider then that MeeGo is based on Qt.
MeeGo is a consumer Linux. That puts it in an elite realm with only one peer: Maemo. For this to become epic, only one thing is needed, UX. Everything non-technical must be done well. Even at these early stages, the netbook profile certainly is incredibly slick and integrated, hopefully the mobile profile will be similarly cared for.