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#195
Since this is turning into a MeeGo thread, let's get things straight (yes, it will be obvious but people seem to lose that out of sight in the heat of discussions).

Nokia has no *currently* shipping MeeGo devices

Consequence 1: You don't know how productized MeeGo looks like. All comparisons about how much time it takes to customize/rewrite/augment/Ovify/productize/whatever are plain guesses.

Consequence 2: You will hear MeeGo is promising, exciting, etc, etc, but you won't hear 'MeeGo is the ****, everything else sucks' because that would Osbourne effect Symbian^3, which is actually pretty important in building momentum for a Qt-centered ecosystem like MeeGo's.

Consequence 3: The first wave of any new platform is the most expected one. You can launch a platform only once, so it will be timed carefully, and that's when you'll see the Nokia marketing big guns. People here are often in the enthusiast crowd, so they are listening at developer/OEM oriented communications (which normally preceed consumer ones, especially in as open projects as MeeGo is) and confuse that with the corporate device marketing that they are used to.

The bottom line is - MeeGo devices need to ship, and they need to ship right, until then this type of MeeGo and armchair analyst talk is bikeshedding, maybe even worse - it's like trying to figure out how flying feels like by looking at airplane blueprints and engineer chatter.
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