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#43
Originally Posted by mobiledivide View Post
I always wonder what would have happened if they had pushed maemo down to a mobile touch phone and up to a 6 inch tablet and 10 inch netbook form factor in a quick and agile manner. With Nokia's distribution and production scale we would be looking at a 100% different mobile and arguably desktop/laptop ecosystem right now.
Indeed. They were[1] working on resolution independence back in the day, but then decided to abandon the internet tablet concept just as everyone else was embracing it.


[1] incidentally, lucasr and a bunch of other GNOME people left around the time Elephanta was scrapped