Actually the article you linked to said the Maemo team frequently had to come up with software optimisations because the hardware wasn't good enough.


Sure it told the story of various failed UIs before the development of the highly praised Swipe UI but it was probably those bad experiences that lead to QML. NOKIA's issues were design, politics and management, QML was probably the developers response. If there was to be yet another redesign of the UI QML would make it far easier for them to implement.

It seems Elop learned nothing from this sorry tale, NOKIA are now again stuck with an unloved UI and they have no way of revising it.


For argument's sake let's pretend that's true, why would you choose to replace Symbian/MeeGo with another OS that also 'sucked for the masses'? Windows Phone 7 had already proved about as appealing as a frozen 5h1t-on-a-stick hadn't it? It was already a proven failure in the market place, it could never be the solution to what you have portrayed as the problem.

If NOKIA were as great at hardware as you like to suggest the best thing for them to do would be to go for Android. People would still choose NOKIA because of their great hardware, right?

Qt/QML could be ported to Android for purposes of differentiation. Android is adaptable whereas Wndows Phone doesn't do differentiation.

And don't forget the all important 'ecosystem'? Wndows Phone 7 didn't have one to speak of but Android's was pretty good wasn't it?


It made sense to a Microsoft Trojan horse but it made no sense whatsoever to NOKIA. The market certainly appreciated that, NOKIA's share price suffered an immediate drop after the strategy was announced.


Not foreseeing the crash Windows Phone 7 would induce was truly myopic. There is no set of circumstances you can dream up where exclusively adopting Windows Phone 7 was the right answer for NOKIA.