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2012-01-07
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You don't know that. There are things happening in the background that only Nokia knows, to protect themselves from the investors walking away.
There was no sign of recovery, you are mistaken. The only sign was the leak of N9-00 (the N950), problems with competitors (RIM, WebOS and Android) and the revelation of the N9...those did boost support temporarily but left many doubts because of the long-wait.
From what Balmer says, MeeGo wasn't ready for a long time. I think he's right, it wasn't ready, but I dont think it was as far off as he said it would be. By the time Nokia makes its 3rd/4th WPhone, MeeGo would've been ready but could Nokia really survive that long?
(Probably not)...and would MeeGo be able to revive them (probably not), whereas they have a finished ecosystem NOW, with APPS, and its not half-bad either.
Nokia and Microsoft entered a mutual symbiosis. But is this the best case scenario for Nokia? No. Were they f***ed? Yes, by themselves.
Bada phones are cheap, they look like Android/Galaxy S's and they are available in a mass (especially in 3rd world countries).
Windows Phone will surpass Bada very soon (2012) with Nokia's help since Nokia is the 3WC-King. Nearly everyone in Africa, India, and Middle-East have one...because of strong brand trademark.
From Gartner (Global '11 Q3)
Android: 52.5%
Symbian: 16.9%
iOS: 15.0%
RIM: 11.0%
Bada: 2.2%
Windows Phone: 1.5%
WebOS, Maemo, Other: 0.9%
I think towards the end of the year, we should see Android "slowing down" (maybe close to 53% ?), Apple catching up (upto 18%), WPhone greatly adopting (11%), RIM losing (9%), Bada/Others holding steady (3%) and Symbian dropped off (6%).
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2012-01-07
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It's not really.....
They ****ed themselves w/Maemo6 before they even got close to transitioning to real MeeGo.
Before the strategy change Nokia had done almost nothing w/real meego, Intel was doing most of the dev.*
The actual setting-up of all the infrastructure etc, did little to slow things down.
Things had already been slowed right down thanks to dev issues/delays with Maemo6x.
Nokia Not-so-smartphone (or whatever you want to call it) division headed by Mary McDowell.
The N9 was the last non-WP phone from Elop's division. But Qt and Meltemi belong to McDowell's division. Probably a next Maemo descendant will emerge from there.
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2012-01-07
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2012-01-07
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this is my point the merger of moblin/maemo decision wasnt made over night, what ever problems they ran into moving forward with maemo5 to 6 they got worse when creating meego.
Intel had 0 clout in mobile, and still doesnt, moblin was going to be their way in. Nokia got wrapped up in helping intel break into the mobile space. Now maemo wasnt only burdened with it's own problems but Intel/moblin's problems as well.
Is she still in control? Meltemi is suppose to be the successor of symbian correct? My understanding is that accenture now controls the development of symbian and I havent seen anything from them in reference to meltemi.
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2012-01-07
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This stinks of Meltemi:
http://www.smarterphone.com/products.php
Not necessarily true, but seems very likely.
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2012-01-08
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They ****ed themselves w/Maemo6 before they even got close to transitioning to real MeeGo.
Before the strategy change Nokia had done almost nothing w/real meego, Intel was doing most of the dev.*
The actual setting-up of all the infrastructure etc, did little to slow things down.
Things had already been slowed right down thanks to dev issues/delays with Maemo6x.
But even if they had been on track...
It's still not clear if Intel would've had the silicon for them to deliver their 1st true MeeGo handset/s.
Which by original timelines was to be Q4 of 2011, there was to be at least 2 ARM/Maemo ones before that.
It amazes me that people still cite the Moblin/Maemo tie-up as the single-biggest cause.
There's much more to it than that....
*and that was mostly not for handsets.
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