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You're completely ignoring that MeeGo goes from sitting on top of an OS that would feed MeeGo Qt applications built by the biggest platform in sales as of pre-february, to sit on top of an OS that would fight with fingernails and patents to prevent MeeGo from getting any synergy effect. Nobody will develop for MeeGo unless someone actually use MeeGo. What was good about Maemo were ported applications and the handful of gems made by this small community - what would have been good by MeeGo on top of Symbian^3 would be ported applications + the handful of gems made by this small community + an abundance of Qt apps recompiled from Symbian.

Without Symbian, MeeGo is just as Maemo - a really tiny niche. It can not be "on top of WP" - it will be way to the left of any triangle where WP is part.

Nokia were just about to enter a new phase in their OS strategy - they were building the foundation of Synergy. With cross platform Qt - which is the heart and foundation of the Qt thinking - they could even ensnare developers from Android and Windows Phone 7/8 without making these developers give up on their chosen OS. But instead they go out and announce that they wouldn't want to put any Qt on their Windows Phones, and that strategy - which were just starting to look promising - is laid dead.

Qt isn't technically dead yet, but Nokia sure isn't going to take it where they said they would - and without that, there will be no Nokia Maps on MeeGo, there will be no whatever we want to pick from another platform, it'll only be what Qwerty and the other people in here take the time to develop and port.

While that still makes MeeGo a brilliant platform, it'll make it just as individual dependent as Maemo was.

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MeeGo with Symbian^3 > MeeGo with Windows Phone 8
(read bigger, not better)