shooting flying pigs out of the sky w/ angry birds, are we...
thinking Rich Green became NOKIA's CTO because he was some sort of a Xmas father ridding a sledge drawn by caribou's between the clouds, are we?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISjb9E5A2ls from 0:16 to 0:25:
«we do plan to ship a device from our MeeGo program some time this year and i think it is critically important to deliver that and to get the feedback from that [...]»
from 0:57 on:
«[...]as we evaluate the feedback from MeeGo we are going to consider that feedback and the technology therein for inclusion in our you know next generation technologies or platform technologies that we talked about»
can it be any clearer? of course, if they only sell 92'000 units, it is going to be the end of it.
considering the «[...] it is beautiful and elegant and the hardware is interesting and the software is powerful [...]» part, one can't help thinking NOKIA is rather aiming @ selling 9'200'000 units of it
if the interesting hw includes a keyboard, they sure already have sold one
nearly a million N900s sold edges on miraculous considering the poor prognostics @ release time

i left out the part where Rich confesses that NOKIA was a little late w/ getting Maemo to the (smart-)phone masses (with the N900) and that their plan to drop Maemo / MeeGo in Intel's lap (-tops ¦-)) and wait for WIntel to become de facto standard of the (smart-)phone market and being able to piggyback on that w/ Maemo / MeeGo didn't quite work out.
considering the fu## about and around LostDOS paralysed se7en at the time of its release, it seemed enough to unite Mameo w/ Moblin to achieve that.
m@ke$$h!t being what it is, NOKIA had to step in to "save" LostDOS Paralysed se7en (and get its next platform going )

maybe the only question one might ask is whether it was worth sacrificing Symbian^3 for MeeGo? or merely precipitate its end?
NOKIA usually only had one platform (Symbian, mostly, so far) and it remains to be seen how long they will continue carry m@ke$$h!t at arm's length once Maemo / MeeGo takes off...
in case it doesn't, they have their fall back strategy already in the air
and who knows, maybe they'll include a key combination to "flash" W devices w/ MeeGo