Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters) [LWN.net]

Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)

Posted Feb 11, 2011 10:22 UTC (Fri) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters) by jldugger
Parent article: Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)

> In my book, when you make short term sacrifices for long term gains, it's an investment.

Everything is short term. Long term success is nothing but a long string of short term successes.

This 'short term sacrifice' means that Meego is now dead.

I hope that people seriously learn the lesson here. Potential technical excellence in the future is nothing compared to having something that works right now.

QT4 being better then QT3 didn't stop KDE 4 from sucking and QT4 being better then GTK did not save Meego.

Nokia has moved officially to Windows phone 7 and will continue to develop Symbian. Looks like bad decision making is going to kill Nokia, too.

Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)

Posted Feb 11, 2011 15:43 UTC (Fri) by albertoafn (guest, #64225) [Link]

I dont think there is a lesson to learn here. Everybody but nokia chairmen thought this was an awful move (even people working for nokia) and they had to have continued with the maemo branch.

It was already there, it was nicer. It was working already.

I have a nexus one, but Id rather have a n900 that I would had bought if they didn't do that weird movement. n900 was one of the greates phones ive seen. Better than the nexus one. And its a couple of years old. N1 is a yeard old.

From my pov, at this point, the most sensible thing for nokia to do is accept the new king and start shipping nice android phones... As this is not gonna happen, I hope eventually meego goes somewhere, even if it copes with the same share of the market as linux have vs windows... ;)