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Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
Stop fooling yourself. For several years Nokia tumbled with no aim and no direction believing that their OS'es would magically transform themselves to streamlined modern iOS-like wonders simply by going open source. In hindsight, it is an almost criminally naive philosophy for a large company like Nokia to have. What is needed is strong leadership, excellent programmers and focus, focus focus.

Nothing wrong with open source, but it is not the right method to make a competitive end user OS, not without "corporate disciplined" teams.

The MeeGo philosophy where 1.2 still is a pre alpha release, just isn't good enough.

The N9 is cool and will be purchased, not because of Linux, but because of Swipe (not open source) and the complete out of the box experience. "No" N9 for the US, UK etc is an unfortunate result of all the errors done in previous years.
What are talking about ? Past Nokia have cost the CEO position despite having create a valuable company at his time. The new CEO is extremely different and shocking because it start by trashing the company values and credits. Read "the Elop effect" page.

You are correct that peoples will mostly buy the N9 because of swipe and overall experience. How the N9 was created don't interest most of them. This is a value that Nokia created and must capitalize, not actively kill. Nothing related to the Open Source, etc...

Now is should be noted that N9 Meego is actually capable to provides a hit product. This is not a small fact in the business. Tons of companies are trying to provides a hit product to the market. This is not easy for sure. So when this happens, this must be the top priority of the CEO to maximize the opportunity. Company lives because there sell products, not because there deserve some ego to there CEO.

Last edited by jcdr; 2011-08-17 at 06:51.