[jonpacker]

Have you ever used a meego device? The N9 is a solid phone, and at time of release Harmattan was far better than the Android offering. What makes you say "they had no clue how to turn it into a credible consumer OS"? That seems to be exactly what they did.

[regularfry]

It took them far too long to do it, though. They didn't focus on it, and they had at least three public hardware revisions before they even tried to tack a phone onto the platform. In order to make it credible, they needed to put a lot more weight behind it.

They could have beaten Android by 3 years, but didn't because they were organisationally incapable of doing so.

[jonpacker]

I'm not disagreeing it took them too long and they did it in a ridiculous way, having already made the MS deal, but I don't understand how you can still say it's "not credible". Go use it.

[regularfry]

Credibility is affected by more than the OS itself. I say this as an N900 owner.