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wmarone is offline wmarone
2011-02-21 , 19:08
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Originally Posted by BigBadGuber! View Post
Maemo/Meego. They tried.
No they didn't. Nokia's old guard crippled and hindered the project the whole way, instead of allowing the project to get the resources needed to truly get underway. You can see this in the N97 and N8 both being heralded as the flagship devices despite having lesser hardware than the N900.

How many did they sell? Bingo. Maemo was step 5 out of 6 or whatever, iphone with step 1 was a bestseller. You cant make a turkey platform into an eagle.
Apple has hype like nobody else. Maemo/MeeGo was never given a chance internally by Nokia, having been perpetually sidelined.

Nokia will gain much more than MS. Microsoft is taking a gamble that NOKIA can execute.
Well, they did just gut the company. Nokia will, however, be assuming all the risk of the WP7 platform. If it doesn't catch and Nokia gets displaced anyway then Microsoft walks away unscathed while Nokia gets eaten alive by the market.

I think that Symbian and Maemo point to the opposite. Nokia has good hardware, but I see no reason why Asian produced will not catch up and match it. Nokia software was good for non touch screen phones, but it can not compete in the high end spectrum.
Nonsense, the people who showed they were interested in making it work were simply never allowed the resources necessary to compete.
 

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