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Man, I'm still sad about MeeGo. Nokia was our best shot but fortune was not in our favor.

• panick21_ 4y ago
  It was literally the best phone OS in 2011. Not the best in terms of apps of course. What really pisses me off is that they literally didn't even sell the N9 in major markets. Like wtf are you doing. This was a high margin phone, ready for production. It should even have been out much earlier. The follow up phone was getting close to release. They also had the N950 almost ready for release. And in theory they also had a lower prices phone with MeGoo that was supposed to be out, but it was killed because of their internal competition. Nokia just really stuck around far to long on SynbianOS and that group had way to much power inside of Nokia. I really wanted the N900 and I was just waiting and ready to buy some N1000 that I was sure would soon come out. But it never came. By the time the N9 came out it was already pretty late and they had already killed the platform.
  • NayamAmarshe 4y ago
    It was a trojan horse by Microsoft. They sent one of their own to destroy Nokia from the inside and takeover the company. Everything went downhill right after he became the CEO. https://www.wired.com/2013/09/microsoft-nokia/ https://www.wired.com/2013/09/microsoft-nokia/
    • panick21_ 4y ago
      The book "Operation Elop" comes to a different conclusion. Its more a case of Nokia board-members WANTING this situation, that's why the allowed this direction and were more then happy to pawn of that whole business to Microsoft.
      • NayamAmarshe 4y ago
        Hard to believe that a brand that was in direct competition to Apple and had a strong brand value just as premium as Apple if not more got dissolved so quickly.