Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)

What problems? KDE is years ahead of Gnome in my book. The transition to KDE4 was painful for early adopters like fedora and opensuse. For the rest of us it has been relatively smooth sailing. Qt also makes for a very powerful RAD-platform, combined with KDE it is a real killer. The real problem with Maemo was the GTK detour, they had time to put it out with immature Qt stack.

The only mistake Nokia did was not getting Meego out the door soon enough. With focussed efforts and realistic goals, they would have made it in 2010. After all, it has been a couple of years since they bought Trolltech. Lack of focus, it is as easy as that. On this point I think Elop is absolutely right, Nokia needs to focus. Their only real option is to execute fast on Meego, not restricting it to high-end.