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by sirkneeland 3984 days ago
That's not entirely true. The MeeGo org was a mess. Paradoxically, telling them they were no longer the future enabled the team to stop focusing on politics and make one more amazing product. (source: I work at Nokia. Yes, still)

That said I completely agree that the N9 was the best phone Nokia ever made and that Windows Phone was a catastrophic decision that should tarnish the career of every executive at Nokia who supported it and refused to change course when it was obviously failing.

The demise of Nokia devices was entirely avoidable
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_pmf_ 3984 days ago
> That said I completely agree that the N9 was the best phone Nokia ever made and that Windows Phone was a catastrophic decision that should tarnish the career of every executive at Nokia who supported it and refused to change course when it was obviously failing.

I think the Lumia line is the best thing that ever came out of Nokia, after all the home grown crap-OS at Nokia before.

"Symbian ... no, let's do Qt ... actually MeeGo will be great; really! Aww shucks, it sucked, too."

Please don't blame your downfall on Microsoft.

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anonbanker 3984 days ago
If you don't want the parent to blame Microsoft, I'll be happy to do it for them.

Stephen Elop was working for Microsoft's interests long before he ever joined the organization.

Nokia was the best steward of Qt, and I'm glad MS didn't get their hands on it when they had the chance.

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atinoda-kestrel 3984 days ago
>That's not entirely true. The MeeGo org was a mess.

Obviously you have an inside perspective that I don't, but from the outside it just looked like y'all made an amazing phone. :) I can't say I heard much about internal issues, but I believe it given other things I've heard about Nokia internal management...

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digi_owl 3983 days ago
The phone was perhaps amazing, but Meego the project was all over the place. Sure, Intel and Nokia was supposed to cooperate. But just as Meego was announced, Intel had moved from Moblin v1 (deb) to Moblin v2 (rpm).
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sirkneeland 3983 days ago
It was indeed amazing in the end. Still the best phone Nokia ever made. Which of course made it all the more tragic when it was killed for the disaster that was Windows Phone.
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