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by oblio 2007 days ago
Or you know, the general decline of desktops from "the only computing" to "secondary computing after mobile".
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boudewijnrempt 2007 days ago
No... It really just is the sudden drop of investment by Nokia and Intel. All those extra contributors were hires working on Maemo and Meego.
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oblio 2006 days ago
How do you explain the relative neglect happening at Microsoft and Apple, then? Or Mono -> Xamarin?

The market just shifted. If you remember, there were also efforts by Mozilla with Mozilla OS, Ubuntu with Unity, everyone and their cat was focusing on mobile.

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