3 Mobile Operating Systems That Didn’t Make It

The dominance of Android and iOS in the mobile phone is now being challenged by newer entrants into the market like Windows Phone, Firefox OS, and the recently launched Sailfish OS. Despite the advanced features offered by these new mobile operations systems, they are not able to compete effectively with established players. The limited availability of apps and a host of other factors led to the failure of many mobile OS in the past too. Below are the 3 mobile operating systems which didn’t made it: MeeGo MeeGo was a Linix-based mobile operating system developed together by Nokia and Intel. MeeGo was the result of the merger between Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin mobile OS projects. The OS had some advanced features when compared Android and iOS like better integration with social networks and built-in compatibility with NFC. Despite its advanced features, MeeGo was too late to counter the competition from Android and iOS. Competing OS were already well entrenched in the market by the time MeeGo was ready for release. In 2011, Nokia released its first and only smartphone  powered by MeeGo, the Nokia N9 (in picture above). MeeGo, along with Symbian, was later discontinued in favor of Microsoft’s […]