And it will be fighting for increasingly limited developer attention. It will be hosted by the Linux Foundation and target connected devices.
Jolla’s head Jussi Hurmola says that the patent lawsuits between Samsung and Apple are actually benefiting the company, since they’re based on an independent operating system and are said to be implementing a completely new UI. You can gauge the potential of Kai OS from the fact that it runs on over 100 million devices and Google has invested 22 million in it. Intel and Nokia are merging their respective mobile Linux Operating Systems - Mobilin and Maemo - to form a new OS called MeeGo. The upcoming MeeGo OS will be completely open-source, and Jolla says that the new OS will be immune to constant patent wars that are saturating the mobile market. Chrome OS powered boxes didn’t really cut it, and the MeeGo Pad T01 comes with either the same or even better hardware and costs about half as much, so it’s certainly a green signal for the. It will have its data center facility located in Hong Kong, where it will store Jolla’s data and provide cloud services, and they plan on conducting most of their research and development in Hong Kong as well. However, the company is planning to put a lot of its focus on the Chinese market.
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Jolla confirmed its upcoming MeeGo OS will be ready for licensing by device manufacturers and service providers by spring 2013. A report claims Intel is backing off its MeeGo operating system for smartphones and tablets and instead will focus on hardware running Android and Windows.
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Jolla is receiving €200 million in funding to develop and release a MeeGo-based mobile operating system codenamed “Sailfish.” The funding will come from a number of different partners in Jolla’s newly-established ecosystem alliance. MeeGo is a discontinued Linux distribution hosted by the Linux Foundation, using source code from the operating systems Moblin (produced by Intel) and Maemo (produced by Nokia).