1. Mobile Linux Landscape
Smartphone Platform Competition – Linux taking over – MeeGo
Valtteri Halla
Director, Nokia MeeGo Software
Member of Nokia CEO Technology Council
Co-chairman, MeeGo Technical Steering Group
2. Smartphone shipments
Smartphone shipments by OS (m) • Nokia still the undisputable volume
leader, but growth is faltering
2009 76,9 34 25,1 14,1 9,4
6,3
• Phenomenal growth of iPhone.
Currently representing 15% of
2010 77,4 39,9 34 12,2 26,1 25,4
smartphone shipments, growing
around 100% p.a.
2011 79 42,6 39,1 22,3 39,3 31,7
• Predictions of Android overtaking
2012 81,3 43,7 44,2 26,5 56 40,2 iPhone by 2012 due to multiple OEMs
and devices
2013 85,2 44,9 50 30,4 69,2 52,5
2014 91,7 46,7 53,1 30,6 83,8 64,2
Symbian BlackBerry iPhone Windows Android Other
Source: Screen Digest
3. Smartphone battle driven by App Ecosystems
Questions to Consumers
Q: What is a Smartphone?
A: A mobile phone with a full-screen touch interface.
Q: What is the single-most important/major criteria in
deciding which smartphone to buy?
A: The availability of a huge selection of apps, music, movies
and an easy way to download/purchase it.
Application is the new Bookmark!
4. Venture-capital backed mobile ISV startups
increasingly choosing Android and iPhone
VC-backed startups ecosystem-agnostic in 2009 Future choices narrowing to Android & iPhone
Platform choices by VC-backed
mobile startups, Q3 2009 “Young companies prefer to be cross platform but have
limited resources, so will go to where they can have
100% Palm
broadest reach and monetisation.
Two Android
Single Symbian
Three Even in China, early stage venture firms tell us
80 platform anecdotally that Android, iPhone and increasingly MTK
Five
Windows
are the platforms of choice.
60 RIM Paul Asel, Partner, Nokia Growth Partners
40 Six
Multi- “Multi platform is still an approach in US, however most
platform lead with iPhone and Android. Symbian is an option if
iPhone deciding to go to EU. But with iPhone and Andoid
20
making inroads into EU, startups can launch an
international strategy on those two. “
0 Marc Theeuwes, Partner, Nokia Growth Partners
Platform choice #platforms Platform
chosen popularity
Source: Chubby Brain VC backed survey, Q309
7. MeeGo in a Nutshell
• MeeGo = the best of Moblin and the best of Maemo
• MeeGo is a fully open source software platform
• MeeGo provides a common set of APIs across client devices with one
unified voice to developers
• MeeGo supports multiple hardware architectures (IA and ARM)
• MeeGo is an independent project hosted by the Linux Foundation
8. Nokia and MeeGo
What?
• First MeeGo based Nokia product in 2H 2010
• Nokia flagship experience on MeeGo, with deep Ovi service integration
and an iconic user experience
Why?
• Rational evolution step to combine identical platform projects of the
two biggest Linux investors with similar visions
• Ecosystem play with freedom to innovate through the architecture
• Symbian and Qt value greatly boosted by MeeGo with Qt
9. What Makes MeeGo Succeed?
• Great UX – Nokia and Intel making joint strategic investment to
make this happen
• Great OS – Nokia and Intel today make most of the client Linux
development invesment. Joint talent pool of 1000+ best Linux
platform developers in the planet
• Multi-category – Handset, Tablet, Automotive, TV, Netbook, …
• Multi-HW – ARM, Intel, multi-vendor
• Multi-lateral – Not a monopoly business platform but a
partnership for technical de-facto standard
10. MeeGo Strategy – Spans Multiple Segments
Tablets Netbooks Connected TV Handsets IVI Media Phone
OS & OS &
OS &
Sys. Infra.
Forum Nokia / Ovi Store + Intel Atom Developer Program / AppUp Store
Sys. Infra.
Sys. Infra.
MeeGo = Best of Moblin + Best of Maemo
Multi-HW (Intel, ARM platforms)
11. MeeGo Roadmap
MeeGo v1.2
MeeGo v1.1
Handset
Netbook
Tablet
MeeGo v1.0
Netbooks
MeeGo Public
Community Releases
MeeGo Distribution Development
MeeGo Project Release Cadence: Every 6mo.
4Q’09 1Q’10 2Q’10 3Q’10 4Q’10 1Q’11
OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR
12. MeeGo Component Architecture
Netbook UX Handset UX Other UX:S
UX
Netbook UI + Apps Handset UI + Apps
Netbook UI Framework Handset UI Framework
MeeGo API
OS Middleware
Comms Internet Visual Services Media Services Data Mgmt Device Personal
Services Services Services Services
SECURITY
Connection Mgmt Layout Engine 3D Graphics Media Framework Content Framework
Device Health PIM Services
ConnMan WebKit OpenGL / GL ES GStreamer Tracker
2D Graphics Camera
Telephony Web RunTime Cairo, QPainter Gstreamer plug-in Context Framework
Sensor Framework Device Sync
oFono WebKit ContextKit
I18n Rendering Codecs
Pango, QtText Gstreamer plug-in
VOIP, IM, Pres. Web Services Package Manager
Resource Mgr Accts & SSO
Telepathy libSocialWeb PackageKit
GTK / Clutter Audio
PulseAudio
Bluetooth Location
Backup & Restore
BlueZ GeoClue X UPnP
GUPnP
OS Base
MeeGo Kernel
Settings Database System Libraries Message Bus Platform Info
GConf glibc, glib, etc D-Bus Device Kit
HW Adaptation Software
Legend: Not part of MeeGo 1.0 release
13. Way of Working on MeeGo
Transparent open source development hosted by the Linux Foundation.
Related open source
projects
Any individual or organization can participate in MeeGo.
14. Overall MeeGo Platform Ecosystem
Open Source
Projects
Application Vendors Technology Vendors
3rd Party Codecs Closed Source
Apps
Upstream Open
Source Component
MeeGo.com
Projects Commercial Solutions
Build Environment
Operating
Netbook System
Reference Vendors
MeeGo Handset
Core Reference
Connected
TV
Reference
MeeGo Component
Projects Device Vendors
MeeGo on
Chipset X
Chipset Vendors
15. Developer Value Proposition
• Cross-platform development
framework expands business
opportunities across markets
PC MeeGo Symbian
• Leading SDK with Qt Creator IDE WIN/Mac/Linux
• One set of API:s for application
and service development Qt
• Choise of App Stores to reach the
market
Web runtime
• Backed up by Nokia and Intel
developer support programs
16. Summary of Key Messages
• Smartphones have become Consumer Computers
• Linux will take over the Smartphone market
• MeeGo is challenging Android as the Smartphone
Linux standard
