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Basically the only thing missing is a huge apps catalog, which they could have easily made themselves with the 4,000 or so Symbian guys they had. You know, keeping them fulltime, but asking them to make apps for MeeGo instead of wasting time with Symbian (maybe some nice bonuses for teams making good apps..). Within months there would have been 10s of thousands of quality apps.
I agree. Would that have been enough to take Nokia to the number 1 spot again? Probably not immediately, but it would have given them a great fighting chance. Maemo/Meego was, and is, the best mobile OS in existence. It had/has the best interface in that it managed to make multitasking simple and intuitive. The basic applications where in place. and they were fine to use. Where there gaps? Sure. But those would not have been hard to fill if Nokia had shown themselves to be serious about the platform. Instead, they sold out and ended up with a gutted company.
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