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wmarone	2011-02-21 , 18:56
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Originally Posted by Kangal

Nokia gets a powerful launchpad into the North American market, stops losing (infact potentially gains) investors and now kills off S40 to be replaced by Symbianv3, stops developing for MeeGo (but not Qt) and replaces MeeGo with an earlier released Honeycomb.

Is that a better solution than NOKIA Phone 7?

No, because now NOKIA is dependent on a Google-controlled OS layer. MeeGo gets around the problems of Android and WP7 by placing the whole of the OS beneath the UI in the hands of an independent third party that pulls it all together from existing, independent projects.

Much harder for it to be taken in unilateral directions by someone with a vested interest. It's a better use of resources to contribute to existing open source projects instead of adapting something wholly divorced from existing projects and hoping you aren't saddled with an incompatible fork (for any reason) down the line.

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