the fact remains that these various ARM SoC's are not generic, they have different capabilities that need to be addressed, particularly mobile settings where the demands of power conservation and multimedia pull in opposite directions.

Windows8 is going to have four different ARM SKU's!

it is obviously not a trivial matter, and at least with WP7 microsoft is paying for that platform adaptation.

look, i don't like it either as i am the biggest Meego/QT fan around, but anyone who buys into the notion that the evil elop is a trojan horse for microsoft bent on sabotaging mobile linux is a demonstrable fruitcake who needs to be publicly ridiculed and humiliated lest their nonsense gains greater public credence than it deserves.

the nokia management and executive aim to make nokia the third major ecosystem alongside IOS and Android, for failure to do so will see the company marginalised into either a niche platform provider or just another hardware OEM.

if they thought Meego could provide this, in time, then they would have gone with it. they did not.
rather than give up they hunted around for another platform that could allow them to grow fast enough to become the third great mobile ecosystem. they picked WP7.

none of this means that Meego is useless or pointless, it has excellent potential to hoover up niche users who aren't interested in rebadged WP7 offerings.
it also provides nokia an insurance policy against a future where a platform they don't control (WP7) either can't or won't provide they future upgrades Nokia feels it might need to stay relevant.

if Samsung can see a purpose for Bada, why does no-one see the value in Nokia treating Meego the same way?