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Originally Posted by GeraldKo View Post
Actually Bond@ge, there are grief-worthy aspects here.

1. It spells the end of this "community". I'm not a social-network type at all (never even accepted a Facebook invite), but I'll miss this forum and especially some of the participants, who will scatter.

2. It's a foot on the face of an ideal. We're left with just big, grubby, locked-down, oligopolistic OSes. Nokia, even if for its own corporate interests, was serving as a white knight for "the little, freedom-loving people" and the underdogs. And then it sided with the worst of the entrenched oligopolists and mowed us down in our Virtual Tahrir Square.

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3. Then there all the people who put effort into Maemo, QT, and Meego and are largely undercut/sold out.

4. It's probably a silly thing to mourn, but there are those of us who rooted, maybe foolishly, for a successful Finnish multinational corporation over the American multinational corporations, and for a Europe-centered OS hub instead of all US-centered OSes.
While I agree; it smacks me in the face that Nokia didn't cultivate this community to the point of where it was pushed to the forefront and all associated products - Maemo 5, N900, MeeGo-Harmattan, MeeGo w/ Nokia UX - were not fleshed out fully.

There was time. 770 came out when? N900 came out when? MeeGo was announced when?

And yet, from the N900 to now, nothing came. The PR updates were delayed. And the OS didn't get the push that we knew it should have.

I have a problem with that. It smacks of bad management no matter how you cut it. Bad, pre-Elop management.

And if it means the end of this community - which I have to somewhat doubt since there is a community SSU - then really... who do you truly blame?

The new head or the old head(s)?

I'm looking back to the past decisions for blame. They killed off what could have been great by not putting anything out that showed that greatness off. We knew it. They just needed to find a way to make others know it.

And they didn't. I find way too many faults in that. Nokia didn't capitalize from the 770 to MeeGo.

Last edited by gerbick; 2011-02-11 at 23:32.
 

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