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Nokia had been moving towards an open-source culture. Those are the types they've attracted the last several years. This is a very radical departure from their

• davidw 16y ago
  Sure, I think Android is in some ways closer and more interoperable, but still... people were likely to go in any case.
• spiffworks 16y ago
  You should've seen Ryan Paul's twitter feed today. It was brutal watching his love for Meego break down into cynical snark for Nokia.
• leon_ 16y ago
  Yup, I started liking Nokia again because of their Maemo/Meego engagement. I'm an iOS developer but in private I use a Maemo phone (the N900) which fulfills my geek needs. I hoped for a cool N900 successor with a cap. touch screen and a little more power but ... well ... I guess Nokia will make something half assed. Meego phones (which run a real linux - not closed bullshit like android) would have been an awesome alternative to iOS and Android. At least for the more geeky consumer. :/ Good bye, Nokia.
  • berntb 16y ago
    Hear hear. An open O/S for my phone named the same as a Lovecraftian monster... I was starting to read the Qt docs, Gnome/Mac user and all. :-(
    • joezydeco 16y ago
      Knowing a little Qt isn't a bad thing, and it's kind of fun to prototype stuff on a desktop and have it run in an embedded environment with a quick recompile.