Thread: Maybe the unpleasant truth is that MeeGo really was too late and/or not good enough?
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pxa270 is offline pxa270
2011-02-13 , 23:29
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Originally Posted by maluka View Post
In the days before the announcement there was also a piece about Nokia's huge R&D spending that suddenly showed up also out of thin air.
Hold you conspiracy theories here. Nokia's large R&D spending has been noted a number of times in the financial press in the past, see e.g.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/24/pal...ng-rumors.html,
http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...-update2-.html,
http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...-update2-.html

The first link is quite enlightening: Nokia spends over 8bln on R&D, which was several times the entire market value of Palm (2.4bln in 2009, just after WebOS release, eventually purchased by HP for 1.2bln). And Palm developed WebOS pretty much from scratch and shipped an end product in less than one and a half year time.
 

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