All the news is still sinking in, but at the moment I don't know who i feel more sorry for.

Is it the developers who were training up for MeeGo? Is it the Intel reps getting ready to show off their MeeGo wares at the MWC booths, after their major partner just dismissed it as a hobbyist platform and pretty insignifgant for the next few years. Is it the smaller companies like Neofonie who put their faith and limited resources in MeeGo by bringing us the first real commercial tablet WeTab. Is it the MeeGo bloggers who put their own money into travelling to MWC hoping to report some good news? Is it the volunteer MeeGO ambassadors, running their local groups all over the world? Job losses in Finland.. ok I could go on and on..

And it's not just Maemo/MeeGo, what about the E7 - now we know why the release was hastily brought forward a few days before this announcement. A great little phone undermined before it's even started selling. I thought that kind of nonsense would be gone under Elop.

Whatever the future, I don't regret owning a N900 and if MeeGo brings more of the same then I'll still be onboard for MeeGo.

Edit: I actually meant to post the above on the other thread but I guess it fits here too

I think of the three mentioned in the thread title - Symbian, MeeGo, and Qt - then Qt is definitely the safest in Nokia's plans. And it's a great skill to have by the way, I have been job hunting and noticed that it is popping up quite a lot in job vanancy adverts. I think it's future is assured.

Symbian is on the way out, but we knew that anyway. And to be honest it's no great loss. You look at it and think - the oS is solid, just needs a bit of up-to-date modernisation but after years Nokia still can't get that right. Time to put it out to pasture.

MeeGo sounds like the new Maemo, as far as Nokia is concerned, so I guess we're back to step 1/5. But it's not like Symbian, it's still around and growing and getting better. Symbian never had a hope of being on anything other than a smartphone, but MeeGo can and maybe that'll be Nokia's chance to diverify again into other devices such as the rumoured MeeGo tablet later this year. I don't think we've seen the last of MeeGo and Nokia yet.