Thread: Eldar and others: Nokia and Microsoft Discussing WP7
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2011-01-01 , 23:13
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#190
Originally Posted by Stskeeps View Post
...While it might not be obvious, some of those videos (such as u-boot dual boot of MeeGo, as an example) which looked like it was published by an individual contributor, was done by motivation of the hardware adaptation team. So the community around the hardware adaptation (and MeeGo ARM community) does produce things, it's just not with company logos, fancy animations and cool marketing always.

I personally find a charm in raw, hardcore hacker videos and presentations of new technologies done without a company hat on.. but there is of course a balance to be done between that and doing marketing for customers..
Actually those videos could be a very valuable place in a corporate marketing strategy
(Nokia appears to have lost any visible corporate marketing strategy)

Those videos actually provide the 'early adopter' market players
with the confirmation that the product is actually existent.
Otherwise, the Alpha Users would be drifting off to other products.

I guess one telling point is here, right now:
one of the biggest and fastest growing monster threads here on Maemo
is Not about Meego:
[TUTORIAL GIGA UPDATE] Do you smell it, do you? It's Gingerbread! (1,048)

In how many ways is that so depressing? sigh....

Anyway, Happy New Year and
Here's a toast to many more hacker videos of Meego
but please let it be Nokia hardware and not just the competitors!
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