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	daperl	2010-07-30 , 01:58
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Originally Posted by johnel

If a platform is to be successful it need stability and some form of backward compatibility.
Apple understand this, microsoft understand this and as a result enjoy a healthy collection of applications.

Sorry, but the continued improvement of iOS isn't comparable to the transition of Maemo to an every-person's phone OS. But please don't get me wrong, I can list more Nokia mistakes than you can. That's not the point though. Only one thing matters to me: What direction they're going. For handheld hardware coupled with an OS, Nokia's the only one I see going my way. But I can also see myself buying products from other companys that align themselves with the likes of a MeeGo or a Ubuntu.

If this was evolution then maemo would have remained and Nokia would have kept improving it. But Nokia haven't done this and have now reset their progress to the beginning.

When things evolve they generally become incompatible with the previous species.

I like the idea of MeeGo; it's closer to what Maemo should have been in the first place. Rome wasn't built in a day, in was built in step 5 and there were many casualties.

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