The "Ari Jaaksi" mystery revealed
 

So Ari had the intelligence to foresee the Nokia/MS alliance coming and decided to abandon the sinking ship.

Today Nokia showed the open source community its' middle finger. Anybody who thinks differently is delusional.

What makes this even more painful that some of the Nokia mouthpieces were spewing oficial corporate propaganda on these very boards about how great Meego's future looked. Sad.

Discuss.

Re: The "Ari Jaaksi" mystery revealed
 

Its already being discussed...in every other thread in the active topics!!! Is it an ego thing that makes people feel the need to start another one.

Re: The "Ari Jaaksi" mystery revealed
 

I'm not sure if it was intelligence, but him being in the top position of MeeGo it might have been told or clear to see.

He seems to be enjoying his position in HP(and post a lot more in his twitter :D)
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30 minutes ago. Tags being Maemo/MeeGo and webos. ;)

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http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/

Ari's blog

"On another note, I worry about my old friends a lot. I’m sad to see they no longer trust they can make a difference. They’ve given up and given away their passion. Sorry, that ain’t gonna work. You must believe yourself and what you are up to, and you must believe you can change the world. That’s the only way I know. All the best, though."

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Ari is as enthusiastic as before, and now seems to have organization that lets him to do what he's capable of doing.

Making the jump decision between WebOS and Android bit easier.

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I think the 'peeing in their pants' jibe he made was actually aimed at the Nokia board. He couldn't reasonably stay knowing what was going to happen. Looks like Jaaksi has real balls, shame we can't conclude the same about the Nokia men in grey suits, bringing in Elop as their assassin and all that.

This whole Maemo/MeeGo+Symbian+Qt/MeeGone disaster smells like the (thankfully now thwarted) plan in the UK to knock down the Olympic athletics stadium for redevelopment after using it for just two weeks next Summer.

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Nope, that was Vanjoki.
http://www.itviikko.fi/files/panoram...i_tammikuu.jpg

Re: The "Ari Jaaksi" mystery revealed
 

That was Vanjoki and he was member of executive board when he said it.

EDIT: Tissot on perkuleen nopia.

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Mega-OOOOPPPSSS!

I get all these guys names muddled, but Vanjoki must have still been referring to the Nokia board. And Jaaksi still rocks as far as I'm concerned.

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@Rauha

Well right now I wish him well (although right now it's actually his former colleagues who're getting kicked in the kerb). As opposed to the unspeakable new ms (dis)appointment, Ari I always believed to have the best of intentions even if the execution of those intentions left a lot to be desired.

HP is HP (I know them well) and they aren't Nokia (I thought I knew them too) but perhaps the execution side at HP/Palm works out better. Not long ago HP simply refused to sell me a laptop without ms-windows (it was available with Linux or w/o OS elsewhere) but with HP being (hopefully) too big to be kneecapped by MS (or one of their undercovers) I hope Ari gets to show his full potential there.

That said I'm far from convinced that HP is too big to capitulate to ballmer's orders.

Also, while I come from the GTK side, I'm distressed that the very promising Qt framework was allowed to be compromised so easily by ms-flop.

Maybe HP should buy the former Finnish crown jewel on the cheap before it is ground to dust completely and appoint Ari as the CEO?

Then the "mystery of Ari Jaaksi" would truly be revealed. ;)

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If adopting Android is "peeing in your pants", then adopting Windows Phone 7 is "jizzed in my pants" and not in a good way.

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Are you a virgin?? (nothing wrng with that, but)
When you climax, it's always a good way.

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First I lol'ed. Then slowly the realization of how dismissive that is of a rather large plurality of rapes creeped in....

Actually, the guy you were responding to could've been referring to wet-dreams, particularly ones you wake up with no conscious recollection of. Then it's just cold, slimy and moist, and you get this disatisfied feeling like you missed out on something you may have actually enjoyed. Oddly appropriate for the situation.

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where can I get those webos devices? after 24 hours of digesting the news, I think I am better off by following Jaaksi....

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[This one is for Reggie] Can we have, then, a WebOS section on (note:) internettablettalk.com?

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You would have to import one right now. Palm also didn't support app sales in Finland. HP is bound to make WebOS more global. I think that HP will definately start selling in Finland, especially now that there isn't a domestic option to compete with anymore.

I'm coming over to that side as well.

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I would also Go this way(WebOS) if it was a little more easy to get the devices and software. At the moment I don't know.

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From what I could see, I would love a WebOS smartphone after my N900. The Palm Pre 3 looks great. But... unfortunately it's nonexistent in my country, even on the used mobiles market. :(
Hope HP will sell it here... one day.

Re: The "Ari Jaaksi" mystery revealed
 

Hey aren't you going to hang around for Step 5 ;)

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at least its non-existence is now confirmed...

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@ossipena If it's any consolation I too will probably consider some WebOS device in the future (it's the lesser of all the evils out there). Unless some enterprising Chinese Nokia-wannabe picks up Meego and sets out to prove Elop wrong, or a bunch ex-Nokia Meego employees strike out on their own and finish off Meego.