<p>It's very sad news. I loved Maemo and the N900 I had was great. Nokia has been on the rocks for a while. They still own the dumb phone market which is big worldwide, but for MS this is a smart move in getting adoption for Windows Mobile possibly. Time will tell.</p>
<p>I worry more about what happens to the other Open Source projects Nokia owns. Notably Qt. There's also a lot patents at Nokia that the trolls in Redmond would love to get their hands on.</p>
<p>I didn't think it was as clean cut as "get a former MS employee, end up on Windows", seems I was wrong. It is that simple.</p>
<p>A sad day :(</p>
<p>Dan</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 11 Feb 2011 11:48, "Stephen Watkin" <<a href="mailto:ste@enzy.me.uk">ste@enzy.me.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> So they've finally dropped symbian and allied themselves with the next <br>
> least promising smartphone platform. I think the damage they've done <br>> themselves by fiddling with symbian while everyone else moved on to <br>> greater things will be almost irreversible. I think as par as public <br>
> perception goes, they're very much yesterday's technology.<br>> <br>> Shame, really!<br>> <br>> Ste<br>> <br>> On 11/02/2011 10:15, Sebastian wrote:<br>>> So we can pretty much say goodbye to Meego/Maemo and any chance of <br>
>> Nokia doing more handsets with decent software?<br>>><br>>> RIP Maemo - you gave us great hopes for a while.<br>>><br>>> Sebastian<br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>
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