Judging from the history of Nokia it seems once they "left" symbian for Maemo it all went downhill from there so judging by the happenings from there on the problem was clear to see within there software dept as the root cause.

I did notice very clearly that once they dropped out of symbian and turned to Maemo, the updates were very meager leaving a lot to be even fixed, i noticed from the list of nofix that there was very little headway in development untill in the end someone made the decision to cut development on Maemo.

How MeeGo came about i am not sure but to have a stab in the dark and say they started that with not enough of a development team, same as before with Maemo, realised it was not going to get far and then at that point something was clearly wrong.

The story behind the "aquisition" of Elop probably came from within the board and i think by that point they finally realised the problem was software development and looking for a way out they obviously seen a saviour from Microsoft with this WP7, this obviously created the merger by the taking on of its new CEO and i think from my point of view Nokia at this point Nokia knew very well they had to get outside development and the very reason Elop is there and Microsoft to be that development.

Now i see a problem because i do not know or understand what they have done within Nokia as far as the development for MeeGo is concerned, what software engineers have been taken out by Elop, my guess is he will cut back enough leaving only the essential developers working in NOkia to make this venture work.

This may be the reason he has said what he said about the N9 being the last MeeGo device and probably means Nokia will only be concentrating on WP7.

All very easy to understand if you look at it this way but as for the real, is anyones guess.