{"id":34944,"date":"2011-09-29T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=34944"},"modified":"2011-09-29T09:58:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T07:58:17","slug":"intel-drops-support-for-meego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/34944-intel-drops-support-for-meego.html","title":{"rendered":"Intel drops support for MeeGo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Intel\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307489-Intel\">Intel<\/a> has decided to shift its weight behind the newly announced \u201cTizen\u201d mobile operating system, the latest software to come out of the Linux Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Intel dropping support for <a title=\"MeeGo\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/364320-MeeGo\">MeeGo<\/a> is in line with earlier reports that the company was looking to shift focus away from the mobile OS due to a lack of consumer enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Nokia\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314603-Nokia-Corporation\">Nokia <\/a>N9 smartphone, which runs on the MeeGo platform, was released this month worldwide, though this will be the last MeeGo based device from the company as they shift their focus over to the Windows Phone OS.<\/p>\n<p>According to an Intel blog post, \u201cWe believe the future belongs to HTML5-based applications, outside of a relatively small percentage of apps, and we are firmly convinced that our investment needs to shift toward HTML5.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShifting to HTML5 doesn\u2019t just mean slapping a web runtime on an existing Linux, even one aimed at mobile, as MeeGo has been,\u201d the company concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Tizen will support smartphones, tablets, netbooks, smart TVs and in-vehicle systems.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2011\/09\/28\/intel-kills-meego-in-favor-of-tizen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has dropped support for the MeeGo operating system in favour of \u201cTizen\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":25021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3262,131,1359,653],"class_list":["post-34944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-html5","tag-intel","tag-meego","tag-nokia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34946,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34944\/revisions\/34946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}