Thread: Why do people say MeeGo is dead?
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Zoxir is offline Zoxir
2012-03-10 , 05:39
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Originally Posted by jalyst View Post
Oh I know, I blame mostly the bizarre decision to stick w/MeeGo branding, even after they'd ditched the strategy.
They went to great lengths to secure it from the LF....
When they could've immediately subverted MeeGo, & referred only to Harmattan, Maemo, or even just Nokia N9.*
It wasn't as though MeeGo was a household name by Feb 2011...
They hadn't done a great deal of marketing by that point for the handset side of things.
It's almost like they wanted to attract the "MeeGo is dead" ridicule/mantra from the blogosphere.

*granted they did do this to some extent
Maybe it was the deal people say they had with intel that made them release the N9 in the first place that required the OS to be refered as Meego.



Originally Posted by mahead View Post
Afaik Ollila wanted to make Vanjoki as a new boss after Kallasvuo. That didn't happen because (north american) investors insisted new director must come outside of Finland, otherwise Ollila will be replaced as soon as possible. The rest is history. How different things could be if Vanjoki would be there leading Nokia...
I didn't know that. But I was refering to the Finnish governement that did nothing to stop the deal with MS. They seem to go out of their way to ask reasurances from Greece that they will get their money back even though everyone knows they wont get back anything but when it comes to the 30% of their tax revenue they just stood there. The legal reasons were there just take a Look at the B&N defense against MS.