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wmarone is offline wmarone
2011-02-09 , 17:16
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Originally Posted by nathaneous View Post
Until this day i'll never know why they just tested the waters with the Maemo OS (and evidently the N900) instead of putting all their efforts into it, and marketing it as their successor to Symbian for the 'High-end Smartphone market'.
I suspect the dinosaurs higher up in the executive stack kept stalling and impinging things until Intel came along and the Maemo group jumped at it. The execs couldn't say no and suddenly the team behind Maemo had a way out that would give them the leverage necessary to lighten their load (having someone else help manage things on the lower level) and free up resources to improve the user experience.

Many of us like the Maemo OS, i'm sure if it was properly supported, marketed and nurtured from the begining then Nokia may have had a winning platform...
Absolutely.
 

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