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Here's what Anssi Vanjoki said at MWC in February 2010:

In 2004 when we introduced the first Internet tablet I said, at that time when that was introduced, it would take us five iterations of the software of the platform that will manifest themselves in product and then we have the next generation computer platform after the personal computer (PC). And we have taken four steps, one step is missing. Today we announced the guts of the step, which that it is not only Maemo, but actually it is [also] Moblin, with all the deep level abstraction work that Intel and their community have been doing, with the usability layers of Maemo put together making MeeGo, which really has the potential to be beyond PC. When these real time 24/7 on, always with you, kind of computers, will completely replace these fellows.
Notice that he refers to five iterations of the software, not of the hardware.

If Anssi's memory is correct, his "five-step plan" hails from 2004. Pre-iPhone, in other words. You can be sure that the "plan" will have been changed many times since then. It's not as if, in 2004, Nokia planned that Step 5 would be to merge their software with Intel's.
 

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