Noooo... Why Nokia?

[steele_the_wolf]

Nokia has all but sold itself to Microsoft.

It could have been worse.  It sounds like they are keeping symbian around for the phones that they will sell in the developing world to billions of people, and keeping Meego around as an experimental project.  They should have gone full force on Meego as soon as the n900 came out.

They had a good strategy

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[aurifer]

Meego is a joint venture between Nokia and Intel. Intel is apparently still working on it, while I hear that Nokia is still paying money for Meego's development.

All this maneuvering, lately, points to a shift in how things are done. Intel and Microsoft are no longer buddies, Intel and Microsoft are each trying to get into the mobile space, and Nokia has been falling behind on their mobile stuffs. Then take into account the astronomical popularity of iOS and the growth of Android, and suddenly the map is completely different than it was in the PC era.

Things are still gelling. I just really hope it doesn't set in a state that's no good for consumers.

[steele_the_wolf]

Thats my understanding too. I wish they had just put more effort into getting Maemo/Meego out the door. If it ends up falling into obscurity we would be left with nothing but walled gardens. I might have to go with Android which isn't a truly open ecosystem since its usually locked down in many ways that the other is not and has its direction and development controlled by Google.

[wildw0lf]

I think the problem was here, is that androids, iphones, and crackberries took over everything.