Frappacino | # 51 | 2011-02-11, 16:39 | Report

I am speechless at how naive you are.

I suggest you read ALL of statements and material put out by Elop and Nokia today before you further assert that Nokia will continue to back Meego in any substantial way.

And if you STILL do not understand after reading all that material... well nothing in this world can help you.

PathFinder@9GS | # 52 | 2011-02-11, 16:40 | Report

I think the piece of sh*t elop is getting paid my MSFT and not nokia and is like working as a spy to introduce WP7 to nokia.. what an ***!

I ws never this frustrated.. not even when my n900 would reboot over and over itself..
Neway.. I think im gona get an android phone today and slowly start getting used to it as there is no hope for meego now..
I hope elop and ppl involved in this decision sh** in their pants over and over..
LONG LIVE the n900.. LONG LIVE maemo..

egoshin | # 53 | 2011-02-11, 17:25 | Report

Intel started hiring Android developers month ago.

Rauha | # 54 | 2011-02-11, 17:39 | Report

Ari Jaaksi's blog has new post about cool new Linux devices...

http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/

sondjata | # 55 | 2011-02-11, 17:47 | Report

Clearly a lot of people here failed to remember how the N800 got dumped soon after Freemantle was announced. And the dicking the 770 got. Not surprised at all:

http://soandsuch.blogspot.com/2011/0...a-lost-it.html

geneven | # 56 | 2011-02-11, 17:57 | Report

Yes, this is why I've been increasingly been saying I don't trust Nokia. I don't think that's even an issue any longer, it's obvious. It's the main reason I opposedt the takeover/renaming of InernetTabletTalk.

nilchak | # 57 | 2011-02-11, 21:50 | Report

While I do realize Elop HAD to do something different I think he just took the shirt cut to shareholder-worthy success.

Instead of claning shop and rallying the do-ers within and bringing in new blood and ramping uo the Meego development cycles and the geting the hardware teams to make them bring-to-market devices quicker etc, he just decided to ride an existing competitors coattails to short-term success (if that happens).

He didnt create a new Nokia. He just decided to ride on the back of MS to bring immediate suceess. A true leader in this posiion would have actually turned around the failing Nokia on its own strengths.

He would have made Meego (or whatever inetrnal OS) be the catalyst for a new challenging change. Of course that required hard work as he wod have to clean house, remove the fail points (in the slow Maemo/Meego development ) and bring in a urgent dynamics to make it work.

Instead Elop goes wih a already week competitor product ( admitedly MS was a better strategic choice than Android) to get the sharehders their moneys worth. Week leadership I wod say for a long-term run.

RFS-81 | # 58 | 2011-02-11, 22:14 | Report

Yea, the bright side of this is that developers which didn't have the willpower to leave before now will (or the're simply shown the door). Nokia has no use for software R&D anymore. They just need cheap parts.

sarahn | # 59 | 2011-02-12, 03:43 | Report

Nokia just jumped the shark. I guess there's still a lot of jobs for meego but that seems rather perilous atm especially since they just alienated a lot of people who would be into meego.

Given that dalvik had been ported to meego I thought there was some chance it would actually take off, since it wouldn't take too much work to port existing android apps if they didn't just run already.

Texrat | # 60 | 2011-02-12, 04:36 | Report

Or maybe it's the other way around. Some allege the board made this decision some time ago, and knew they had to execute it with a non-Finn. So bring in Elop as a mouthpiece. Yes, it's conspiratorial-sounding, but I wonder...