Interview with Peter Schneider, head of Maemo marketing
Peter Schneider, head of the global Maemo marketing team, has been interviewed by Sanjeev Visvanatha on a number of topics; including the Maemo community, MeeGo and Maemo Devices: I'm working now almost for 10 years at Nokia. After several product management and software marketing jobs at Nokia, I started to head the Maemo marketing team in November 2007. The Maemo marketing team is responsible for reaching out to platform developers, to application developers, to operators, to service and apps partners such as Skype, lead users, and industry analysts in regards to Maemo. Part two is below.
Interview with Peter Schneider, head of Maemo marketing (pt. 2)
Following on from part 1 above, the second part of Sanjeev Visvanatha's interview with Peter Schneider: Harmattan work is on track. However, you will not see us using the term "Maemo 6" anymore but we will continue the work on Harmattan under the MeeGo brand as evolution to MeeGo. We continue to build flagship experiences with the Harmattan release that include an iconic homescreen design, support for DRM, and multi-touch gestures on capacitive WVGA displays.
Ari Jaaksi explaining MeeGo at Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in San Francisco, April
Ari Jaaksi, VP of Maemo Devices at Nokia, will be giving a talk about MeeGo at the 2010 Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in San Francisco 14 April 2010. Join Ari Jaaksi as he talks about the MeeGo platform and its role in the Linux marketplace for netbooks, handheld computing and communications devices, in-vehicle devices, connected TVs and media phones.
Wayfinder shutting up shop on all platforms
Engadget is reporting that Wayfinder, previously "Navicore" and now owned by Vodafone, is closing down; unable to compete in the free navigation marketplace. So there we have it, the paid navigation services deathwatch has its first fatality, and it's the unfortunate nature of the beast that plenty of others will be following suit, unable to resist the destructive effects of the free and ubiquitous services now on offer. Wayfinder on the N810 was criticised as slow, bloated, expensive and cumbersome. However, in your editor's opinion, it was still orders of magnitude better than the slow, bloated and very cumbersome Ovi Maps shipped with the N900.