All the news is still sinking in, but at the moment I don't know who i feel more sorry for.

Is it the developers who were training up for MeeGo? Is it the Intel reps getting ready to show off their MeeGo wares at the MWC booths, after their major partner just dismissed it as a hobbyist platform and pretty insignifgant for the next few years. Is it the smaller companies like Neofonie who put their faith and limited resources in MeeGo by bringing us the first real commercial tablet WeTab. Is it the MeeGo bloggers who put their own money into travelling to MWC hoping to report some good news? Is it the volunteer MeeGO ambassadors, running their local groups all over the world? Job losses in Finland.. ok I could go on and on..

And it's not just Maemo/MeeGo, what about the E7 - now we know why the release was hastily brought forward a few days before this announcement. A great little phone undermined before it's even started selling. I thought that kind of nonsense would be gone under Elop.

Whatever the future, I don't regret owning a N900 and if MeeGo brings more of the same then I'll still be onboard for MeeGo.

Edit: I actually meant to post the above on the other thread but I guess it fits here too

I think of the three mentioned in the thread title - Symbian, MeeGo, and Qt - then Qt is definitely the safest in Nokia's plans. And it's a great skill to have by the way, I have been job hunting and noticed that it is popping up quite a lot in job vanancy adverts. I think it's future is assured.

Symbian is on the way out, but we knew that anyway. And to be honest it's no great loss. You look at it and think - the oS is solid, just needs a bit of up-to-date modernisation but after years Nokia still can't get that right. Time to put it out to pasture.

MeeGo sounds like the new Maemo, as far as Nokia is concerned, so I guess we're back to step 1/5. But it's not like Symbian, it's still around and growing and getting better. Symbian never had a hope of being on anything other than a smartphone, but MeeGo can and maybe that'll be Nokia's chance to diverify again into other devices such as the rumoured MeeGo tablet later this year. I don't think we've seen the last of MeeGo and Nokia yet.

Honestly I don´t think so. Having WP7 as primary platform Nokia already noted that there is no place for QT on these devices. This makes it playground for Symbian and MeeGo only. Symbian is going down the sink anway and MeeGo is of no strategical value so investment into QT will be drastically reduced.
If at all the future of QT is not lying inside Nokia but outside. But this can not be done from a community only- QT has grown too large that a community can cover the whole framework. Especially not on all platforms. An existing community like KDE might focus on important parts of the framework but not without withdrawing resources from the main project.
The only solution to this dilemma I see is an investor who sponsors further development. Or a revitalization of TrollTech.

Otherwise I do not see a future for the framework as we know it.

what will i buy next? Android probably.

i would still prefer to have a Meego device but after today's symphony of unmitigated cretinism i simply don't trust Nokia to execute it competently.

Meego no longer a platform = stupid stupid idea!
No QT on nokia Win7 phones = stupid stupid idea!

how does nokia manage to be this incompetent?

Man, it was fun while it lasted.

It's pretty hard to be angry this time; at least they went out in a blaze of glory sacrificing just about everything they had. Only time will tell if their strategy of cooling off their remaining loyal developers with a nice golden shower was the right idea. The current stock price certainly reflects this.

Regardless of what happens, I love my N900 to bits. It's by far the most powerful handheld device I've ever used, certainly the best thing Nokia has ever made. Hopefully Qt will live on, even though the "unified developer story" has just been taken out into the square and shot in the genitals, along with any chance of R&D funding.

So, I hear HP Palm is going all in with this Linux thing! Hey, if it's good enough for Ari Jaaksi...

well, i said it last year that meego is DEAD.... and it looks like i was wright all along. Nokia made the right decision because they already knew that meego could not compete with Apple,Android and now MS. If they released it like they did maemo without the app store then it FAILS. Not mention meego needs to come out the shop with pretty much all the stuff that Apple/Android is doing and even more for it to stand a chance.

Same time at HP
http://www.linux.com/news/featured-b...ws?sf1055845=1

hahaha I remember I started a thread as a joke like 6 months ago. It got deleted by mods in like 20 minutes the thread was something like "nokia scraps meego for newgo".

It is safe to say the n900 will be my last Nokia phone. Absolutely shame on Nokia for wasting so many smart peoples time.

I hope the company and eflop go down like the Titanic.

Then again can we really complain? After they did it to Maemo months after the n900?
As the saying goes..."fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me".

Thank god I am not a developer who put time and effort into first maemo then meego...I think I would be looking for blood.

Good bye forever Nokia. I hope your customer base proves to be as fickle to you as you do to them.

What a joke you turned out to be.

No, wonder Ari Jaaksi left to HP. Wonder if he was told this so much ahead or did he just read between lines.

Todays annoucement also explains why Flop removed Anssi Vanjoki from executive board months before Anssi's job contract ended. Becoming box manufacturer is just the kind of "pissing in pants for warmth" that Anssi would have fought to the bitter end.

i would also prefer meego but with what's happening to nokia, i'm not sure if i'm going to buy one again. the only things that keeps me clinging is that they're generous putting large memory on their devices, camera, and build compared to android devices...

nokia can't make up its mind and it's exhausting...

* they announced that maemo will be for high-end devices and demoted symbian

* maemo got left out while symbian still got lots of updates

* killed maemo and turned meego

* still love symbian and still put on high-end n8

* meego and n9 were almost there

* they got killed

* wp7 is the new path

once a htc dual core with hardware keyboard comes out, i'm moving on...bye to nokia till you learn to get firm with your plans and decisions...

oh believe me, with Elop at the helm, this move is permanent - if there is anything positive to come out of this is that there is 100% certainty now where the company is going.