In my opinion, what Apple did was raise the bar for User Experience on smart, mobile devices. Please bear in mind, that I'm not a fan of Apple nor do I own any of their products. However, I will give them credit where it's due.

As far as the Android user experience goes, I haven't really checked it out, because, as an ex-developer, the idea of running a Java VM on top of the Core OS just annoys me. Therefore, for my own personal use, Android gets demised right away.

I think Elop & the rest of Nokia executive team took a good, hard look at the current state of MeeGo and decided that it couldn't deliver a user experience that was as good as iOS/Android, in time to prevent them from losing a very significant portion of the market to Apple and Google.

The Taiwanese and Korean manufacturers are just churning out very impressive Android devices, with a new one being announced almost daily, it seems. And, there are more and more 3rd party apps and addons for iOS devices being pushed to market, daily as well.

A lumbering, old giant like Nokia just couldn't keep up if it had stayed on it's present course with Symbian.

While MS may not be the most exciting of partners, what I've seen of WP7-Mango is *very* impressive.

Perhaps, one day. MeeGo will impress me as well with it's User Experience. However, from what I've seen so far, it's not there, yet!

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