[greatgib]

   To be fair, Kallasvuo did try to build a software environment for Nokia phones. The largely open source Maemo operating system failed to take off

This is not fair to say that, Maemo failure again result from bad decision at leadership level, Maemo was never given a chance with standard consumer headsets because Nokia was afraid of hitting their Symbian cash cow at this time...

[darthrupert]

I worked on that briefly as my first real job. It was totally a side show for Nokia. They (=every layer below the highest) didn't seem to give a fuck about how it goes and quite possibly actively tried to damage the project.

I think this was a massive leadership failure.

It destroyed Finland's economy in a way which it hasn't still properly recovered from. It was made worse by those managers moving to other companies after the crash, bringing their so-called culture with them.

[thisislife2]

It evolved into https://sailfishos.org/ under a startup of ex-Nokia employees ... who knows what the mobile OS' future would have been if it was actually backed properly by Nokia.