[boudewijnrempt]

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.

[oblio]

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.