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mikhas	2011-10-02 , 22:49
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Originally Posted by ste-phan

It's not the name that counts, its the strategy.

After crippling or at least delaying further development of Maemo / Harmattan in 2009 / 2010 Intel repacks and transfers the MeeGo virus into Tizen project and releases it on Samsung.

Samsung was on the verge of adopting WebOS but MS and Intel decided to weaken another competitor by the same successful MeeGo strategy. Samsung has swallowed the bait.

The real intel deal with Nokia was not in MeeGo but a long term strategy to bring Wintel to the Phone Area for good under the Nokia brand by end of 2012

Hence the delay of the Nokia Windows Phone of course, they need to ready the hardware , it has still some power consumption issues

I laughed, nice post. But you know? There's some truth here, namely that the whole MeeGo adventure might have slowed us down wrt. shipping the N9. The resources that were wasted on MeeGo could have been better used internally @ Nokia. And we would have had less public pressure, too (which lets you work more focused). At least that is true for myself.

MeeGo was simply not successful, as much as some of us might want to believe that.

Who knows - without MeeGo Nokia might not have been forced into Windows Phone at all* and Maemo would have lived on. That's what really saddens me.

*The state of MeeGo was a cruel joke already in February this year. Basic things weren't working and the attitude to rewrite/replace anything that came from Nokia also didn't help. Of course the MeeGo 1.2 schedule then slipped, and the MeeGo 1.3 schedule would also have been slipped. Remember how everyone @ the spring conference was expecting to see real MeeGo devices? Yeah, right. In the end, this chaos (and not the community work) is what managers see, and they get to make their decisions based on that.

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