Too bad. They are the market leaders in many areas (India, Egypt, ...etc.)<br><br>They effectively ditched Symbian, end of lifed MeeGo, and committed to Windows.<br><br>Not surprising since their new CEO (Elop), is an ex-Microsoft Vice President.<br>
<br>I have a friend who works for them, and was working on MeeGo in Finland. He is among many who will be laid off because of these repeated fiascos.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Colin K <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:colin@void11.com">colin@void11.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><p>Shame because their phones were tip notch in the longevity department. Too bad no one would bother coding for them at this point. I mean even rim us rethinking things. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Oct 24, 2011 7:03 PM, "Chris Irwin" <<a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca" target="_blank">chris@chrisirwin.ca</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">
The N9, the first meego/harmattan phone is shipping and has been<br>
reviewed by engadget.<br>
<br>
The reviewer really seems to like it. It looks like it handles<br>
multitasking nicer than Android does. From a development point of view,<br>
it is QT-based, so it is probably a fairly easy learning curve for<br>
desktop developers to work with (as opposed to Palm focusing on web<br>
developers)<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/22/nokia-n9-review/" target="_blank">http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/22/nokia-n9-review/</a><br>
<br>
Personally, I think it looks like an awesome phone. A strange<br>
combination of great hardware and a great os (which happens, but not<br>
usually on a launch phone).<br>
<br>
Now take those nice things I just said, and all the nice things in the<br>
article, and change them to past tense. The Nokia/Microsoft thing was<br>
big news at the time, and it's interesting to see how nice and polished<br>
a "dead end" platform can be. That their CEO could look at the early<br>
versions of this and cancel it shows a lack of vision, but is not really<br>
surprising as he was a Microsoft exec. That this phone and software can<br>
exist without re-evaluating that decision is extremely sad.<br>
<br>
Another sad point to ponder is that this nice user interface is not (as<br>
far as I can find) Open Source, unlike the meego underpinnings. No<br>
source and no product means it probably dies here, too.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Chris Irwin<br>
e: <a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca" target="_blank">chris@chrisirwin.ca</a><br>
w: <a href="http://chrisirwin.ca" target="_blank">http://chrisirwin.ca</a><br>
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