Thread: The 'EPIC' "Will Nokia release another MeeGo device after N9?" poll
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patlak is offline patlak
2012-01-13 , 14:11
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Originally Posted by jaripi View Post
A lot of speculations here ... I personally believe that Meego (harmattan) is still there, when Mr. Elop is already gone ... but I believe also that Windows was a right choice for Nokia just at the moment ... of course, all that is just an opionion of one single happy N9 owner, who is waiting to have PR 1.2 soon and then, PR 1.3, which proves me that Nokia is supporting and developing Meego Harmattan for the future ...
How was WP a right choice? Nokia had 2 ready devices, N9 and N950. They could have been releasing a 4th MeeGo device now. This changed their whole 99% ready ecosystem, MeeGo + Symbian + S40 + Qt + Ovi services. It would have been a perfectly unified, yet diverse ecosystem. WP is fragmenting Nokia's offering and lacks the basic 10 year old features, such as Mass Storage mode and lack of a PC client (Zune, iTunes).

All this was proprietary. Please do tell me, how WP was a good plan, even for a "moment." Also, if Nokia was smart, they could have just slapped Maemo 5 on a 10 inch tablet and be done with the tablet war (Honeycomb is a M5 wannabe).