Is MeeGo Development Viable?

Question

To get started, I put this question in context: Is it viable for an individual programmer. Perhaps a small team for the artist, but, by and large, thinks that this is a very small non-profit team creating commercial applications. Basically, I ask this question as a mobile application programmer who will be interested in deploying their applications on multiple platforms.

I understand that Symbian is effectively dead (i.e., on the way to death).

I have a lot of knowledge about C ++ and the Qt API for desktop OS ... I would also be wondering if Qt programming for MeeGo will have a significant learning curve (is this again Symbian C ++?).

Any advice I could get regarding distributing applications on MeeGo devices, the number of distributed devices, etc., would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Symbian is dead because the companies that made it popular abandoned it.

Meego has never had companies making it popular. Intel still supports it, and ultimately it is theoretically possible that one day it can be actively used in the market. But the thing with Intel is that they don't have many phones. Or pills. Or anything else where Meego can really be relevant. And the companies that make phones have so far shown that they are not interested in using Meego. Nokia flirted with Meego for several years, but this was during the most schizophrenic period when they experimented with a new technology glass every 2 months.

But now? You will move from a dying product to one that has never been alive.

Answer 2

I would not bother. Nokia abandoned MeeGo in favor of Windows Mobile, and they were the only manufacturer who showed interest in MeeGo.