Intel has said it would look for new partners for the open source MeeGo mobile OS after Nokia announced its software partnership with Microsoft.
Intel chief executive Paul Otellini told Reuters that it was a financial decision of Nokia to go for Microsoft over Google’s Android platform and dumping the MeeGo platform.
Otellini said it would be difficult for Nokia to differentiate using the Windows Phone platform and added that the chipmaker will look for other partners. He said, "It would have been less hard on Android, on MeeGo he could have done it."
"We will find other partners. The carriers still want a third ecosystem and the carriers want an open ecosystem, and that’s the thing that drives our motivation."
Microsoft was not immediately available for comment.
Earlier, Intel had said in the World Mobile Congress that MeeGo will get support from Intel and the Linux Foundation.
The chipmaker had termed Nokia’s decision to stop work on it as "disappointing", but insisted that MeeGo "was not an Intel and Nokia effort; it was an industry effort".
MeeGo will be used across devices from tablets and mobile phones to televisions and in-car entertainment systems, said the company.
Intel said that, with support from Linux and an established community of developers, the OS could assume a role that Google’s Android has.
MeeGo and Android powered televisions are already on sale outside the UK.
