Thread: Sad news; Nokia apparently killed Meltemi
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Bernard is offline Bernard
2012-06-14 , 13:21
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#49
Originally Posted by Rugoz View Post
You don't scrap a billion dollar development program because of a 1Q schedule slip. The problem with elop and board: Internal development is not seen as a key asset, they have the attitude that they're just gonna use some outside OS if things don't go the optimal way. That way they will never be a major tech company. Neither Apple, Google or MS would just abandon their engineers that way.
Maybe the financial numbers were so bad that they didn't have a choice?
In any case it is a one way track. They can't really go back and develop their own OS after this. Nokia would have a really hard time hiring the engineers needed, every software engineer would think twice knowing how they handled the engineers at the previous attempt. So that leaves outsourcing to microsoft or possibly other parties if/when the Microsoft plan fails.