Oh please...

We all know that everybody in this business copy others. Microsoft does it, Apple does it, Google does it... Nokia has done it multiple times and many Open Source projects rip off features from other platforms. It's nothing new. However, you'll never be a leader if you are nothing more than a copycat. You are a leader when others look at you and want to copy your inventions to their products. And this is what MeeGo should be in my opinion - something stunning that others try to copy. This way there might actually be a place for MeeGo and also possibility for it to break through before that "next big thing" ever gets copied to other platforms. But trying to beat iPhones and Android in their own game is doomed, Windows Phone will have hard time in that competition even as more mainstream OS. MeeGo has to be something else. This is the conclusion I have ended up with during these few days of serious deliberation on Nokia's strategy-hulabaloo.