don't know why i'm waisting time w/ you, but...
maybe because of this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjvTeDUl3ls
maybe the only purpose of NOKIA to get together w/ m@ke$$h!t was to prevent that LostDOS Paralysed se7en goes down the drain and with it their vision that WIntel could become the dominant platform in the mobile world too.
good, bad?
i have long ago stopped using m@ke$$h!t and switched to Linux / GNU, but what if (what i think could be) NOKIA's vision that both LostDOS and Linux are present in the mobile phone market and can be used interchangeably comes true? buy a LP7 device, connect it to your PC or maybe in a couple yrs download an installer & put MeeGo on it.
as simple as that.

last fall, LP7 was about to go the same way then its ancestors (good riddance, i'd say) but w/ regard having one architecture (x86) from servers to mobile phones (& why not, one OS...) not good.
thus NOKIA decided to help m$.
not to deny that it may help them too; Symbian^3 is not quite as popular any more as it used to be and MeeGo isn't ready for the masses yet (w/ or w/out keyboard >;-)

in case MeeGo goes south (the N9 is a commercial flop) NOKIA gets out of it and goes LostDOS full throttle, which will be made much easier by the fact that they already are the primary LPx partner.

in case MeeGo flies, well, not everybody likes Linux / GNU & Symbian has to be replaced, so why not being on the winning side & benefit from it?
plus companies would be very happy to have one software / CPU platform for all their devices, from (file) server to (business) phone
yeah, working together w/ m$ is no cure, but it has potential

that idea of x86 from server to mobile seems crazy?
rotten iPotatos is currently considering switching to ARM for its laptops CPUs & unify iOS and OS/X (for "portable" devices, @ least)
if Intel achieves the same, a software could be run w/ the same "architecture" from server to mobile... big win.
and could make r. iP. think twice about its move, too

i don't expect you to read all this, leave alone grasp it, but maybe others will be interested...

the original post where i 1st speculated about this...
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...79#post1002079