[Liverpool] Nokia and Microsoft

[Dan Lynch]

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.

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.

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.

A sad day :(

Dan
On 11 Feb 2011 11:48, "Stephen Watkin" <ste at enzy.me.uk> wrote:
> So they've finally dropped symbian and allied themselves with the next
> least promising smartphone platform. I think the damage they've done
> themselves by fiddling with symbian while everyone else moved on to
> greater things will be almost irreversible. I think as par as public
> perception goes, they're very much yesterday's technology.
>
> Shame, really!
>
> Ste
>
> On 11/02/2011 10:15, Sebastian wrote:
>> So we can pretty much say goodbye to Meego/Maemo and any chance of
>> Nokia doing more handsets with decent software?
>>
>> RIP Maemo - you gave us great hopes for a while.
>>
>> Sebastian
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