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Originally Posted by Venemo View Post
Interesting, although this is old news. At least it was (I think) well understood even back then that the whole incompetence of their organization was thanks to large-scale mis-management.

This same mis-management was the reason why Harmattan took so long to develop, and also the reason why MeeGo as a whole was too late to the market as well.

In my opinion, the transition to Harmattan should have been a gradual change, and they should have been more committed to Maemo / MeeGo than they turned out to be.
  • They should have phased out Symbian right after the N900 launch
  • There should have been more Maemo 5 devices, including a "more mainstream" one without the keyboard
  • Instead of being such a giant change, Harmattan should have come as a series of gradual, smaller upgrades
  • Maemo 5 devices should have been upgradeable to Harmattan as well.
  • Harmattan should have been released sooner and by the time it was fully developed Symbian should have been fully phased out.

At least, those are my 20 cents.
I believe if they would have switched to Maemo, there'd been no Harmattan, but Maemo, as it ought to be in the first place.
So actually the argument of Harmattan not being ready does not make sense kindof, cause Nokia *was* ready, with Maemo.
EDIT - this ineherently raises the question; why did they not stick with Maemo? Was it "only" symbian in-house politics?
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Last edited by tortoisedoc; 2017-07-31 at 20:36.
 

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