What confuses me is what will Nokia have to offer at MWC or for the entire following year? Anything Symbian would be dead on arrival, and Meego is not ready from Nokias standpoint. WP7 is a 2012 event, so now what?

Nokia gets barely anything from this merger, and even though it would be nice to have the Xbox Live support ... it's too much to bank on Xbox being owned by the demographic its expecting to replace from Symbian.

I understand the need for an ecosystem but I also can immediately see that Nokias ethos is incompatible with Microsoft save for Elop. This is not a good move, and sticking it out with Meego would of been the best move at this juncture because they now have nothing worth buying to offer for another entire year. The holdouts like me won't bother holding out for a WP7 phone ... why when I can buy from elsewhere if I choose so. Also another year from hopping to another OS is not a good sign of stability, and that memo was an opportunity to show a new resolve to stick it out but Nokia has done what they always do, cut and run. Nothing ahainst WP7, I have played with it and it does have a certain appeal to it ... but it cannot compete with the likes of Maemo based on merit, and let alone Android or iOS based on marketing.

I also don't buy that the Mobile OS is not open to new entrants ... that is the old way of thinking that created the likes of Apple. It is an active environment and consumers are not loyalists ... they go for what hardware is matched with the best OS and they make compromises based on the balance of those traits. A good useful OS paired with the revitalized OVI ecosystem is all that is required not hand over the keys to MS. Apple doesn't have an email system, a map system, a video sharing system ... some of those are Google Powered others are from else where. Just make a good OS and stick with it is the best course of action. Lastly don't make a market experiment equipment based on Meego, this is not a request but rather a demand. The Nokia consumers are not guinea pigs, keep it in house for all we care ... man Nokia just loves throwing good money after bad money.

I was a fan of Maemo, I wasn't a fan of Meego because of the way it was poorly executed (couple of months after N900 release, no more support, starting from scratch again, dumping a good OS that needed minor updates), I definitely am now not a fan of Nokia for doing the same thing to Meego (I expected them to kill Meego the day they announced it with Intel) and repeating as if history has not taught them to stay firm with a decision. All the sacrifices the last CEO made in transforming this company into a trajectory of having its own ecosystem is flushed down the drain ... he was an idiot and now Elop has repeated the whole transformation thing again wtf is he nuts ... all he had to do was communicate more the media and consumers and keep the ship sailing on the bearing the last captain set it to before the mutiny.