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2012-08-19 , 08:09
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Originally Posted by Kangal View Post
If anything, I think it was Intel that killed Nokia.
Maemo5 was good (is good). Starting over with .rpm and Qt5 is better, yes, but NOT in the scale of time they did it.
Yeah, no, that wasn't the problem - Intel may have done many things but killing Nokia wasn't it. Qt5 wasn't even part of the MeeGo.com story (came much later). .rpm made a lot more sense considering that the build systems allowing you to do productized releases of .deb based systems and Harmattan were Nokia-closed source.

Also, the Harmattan programme getting so damn late that it sucked up all the people that were needed to really kickstart on MW/UI side for handsets, a multi-device strategy with MeeGo.com, hindering real progress.