Thread: Elop just said in Nokia results conference: "it's clear that first Meego device is 2011 event".
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2010-10-21 , 19:14
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Originally Posted by mrojas View Post
I think that what happened here is that MeeGo was supposed to be released this year, according to Ari Jaaksi's standards of polishing (that means shiny, and rough around the edges).

I'm sure that when the Palm guy came as User Experience guru, deemed it not ready yet for the US market, and needing further polish. And Elop agreed, noticed how he mentioned "unpolished gems" at Nokia?

So they are spending this months for further polish. And its easy to see how a decision like it could have motivated Jaaksi's departure.
I understand and also sort of agree to what you said here but couldn't relate that to Ari's departure.

Anyways, I think this move is sort of a mixed bag. But more is on the greener side.

What Nokia needed for symbian was just a super-duper UI and hiring Peter Skillman for the job was a smart move to fix that problem. And I think it is again another smart move to decide not to release unpolished goods. Atleast they realized this somewhat with the N8. Better late than never.

N8 is a great device in my opinion and I am sure it is gonna rock and keep Nokia busy this holiday season (and possibly even seasons beyond). It definitely has the potential to be the next N95 for Nokia. I think they already even officially promised one big major update sometime later this year!

Now looking at the current state of MeeGo, I am not sure if I would expect a solid Nokia-MeeGo experience even by the 3rd quarter of 2011. But again, if Nokia can't pull a MeeGo out as expected (it's not about execution, it's about acceptance), they would have a solid (great UI) Symbian by then.

And if everything works fine as per plan, what would still leave me confused is about the the real difference between Symbian^4 and Nokia-Meego. How different they both would be? Would it be only the UI or would it be some terminal/root access that we are talking here?
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