The Evolving Mobile Ecosystem and MeeGo

The Evolving Mobile Ecosystem and MeeGo
Gail Rahn Frederick

Who am I?
Product Planner at Intel
I work on the MeeGo project
I’m speaking tonight from personal experience, not as an Intel representative
Mobile Web Enthusiast
Deployed mobile search engines and mobile web sites to operators in US and Europe
Wrote Beginning Smartphone Web Development for Apress in late 2009
My passion
Mobile App Developer
Wrote code for and managed mobile apps with 20+ million cumulative downloads and pre-installs

Who are you?
With a show of hands, who…
Has built a mobile web site?
Knows how to analyze its traffic from device models and through operator networks?
Has written a mobile app?
Deployed to an App store?
Made money with mobile apps?
Has installed the MeeGo SDK?
Has seen the MeeGo Tablet UX?
Written a Qt/QML app for MeeGo?

Agenda
What is MeeGo
Mobile Industry Players
Mobile OS Market Share across Geos
Mobile OS Choices for OEMs, Consumers and Developers
Mobile Web vs. Native App
Tablets: Mobile Devices or Not?
MeeGo Value Proposition
No prior familiarity with mobility is assumed.

What is MeeGo?

MeeGo Value Proposition
100% Open-Source OS built for Mobile and Embedded
Tablets
Handsets
TVs
Netbooks
In-Vehicle Infotainment
Uses Linux Kernel
Open Governance
Open Roadmap
Nurtured by Intel and others, owned by Linux Foundation

Mobile Industry
Or, how an advertising giant came to develop a mobile OS, and vice versa.

Mobile Industry Players
OEMs
OS Vendors
Network Operators
App Stores
App Developers
Media Developers (Music, Video, etc.)
Mobility blurs traditional boundaries in computing ecosystem:
Nokia is a mobile music vendor.
Apple has a mobile advertising network.
Google provides a mobile OS.
Intel owns an app store and enables a mobile OS.

The Patent Mess
Rapid industry innovation +
Rush to patent actual and questionable innovations +
Slow turnarounds at USPTO =
Litigious mobile industry rushing to own and protect patents

Mobile OS Market Share
Or, it’s not all about iOS

Mobile Device Market Share by OS, Worldwide
Data from Gartner – August 2010

Data from Feb 2011 - Source (data and following graphic): icrossing.co.uk

Consumers, OEMs and Developers
Why would each audience choose each mobile OS?

Choosing Mobile Web Doesn’t Help
21 WebKits on Mobile with API variations
field/method exists (yay!)
field/method should exist but does not
field/method exists but implementation is broken
XHTML-MP, HTML4 or HTML5?
It depends on the device
And whether the device identifies itself as mobile
HTML5 helps … on proven mobile platforms
Moving intelligence into HTML5 means browser vendors must worry about app-grade performance

Tablets: Mobile Devices or Not?
What are your thoughts here?

The End
Thanks for Listening!

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The Evolving Mobile Ecosystem and MeeGo

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