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As an owner of a Meego phone I have to disagree.

I loved it(now I use an Iphone), it is rock solid and what it does does it great.

Meego would had been at least a Bada (Samsumg OS) equivalent, and it would had been very important if it had not been murdered by Elop.

There was an internal war in the company with Meego and Elop made sure it was killed, doing things like using underperforming hardware, getting rid of this people as well.

In fact if it were for Elop, there would had never been a Meego phone.



Well, keep in mind my point wasn't "MeeGo was poop," but rather that MeeGo wasn't -- at least according to Nokia's own internal estimates -- ready to go with products beyond the N9 in a reasonable timeframe.

I don't think I'd blame Elop for the N9's hardware, though; Nokia tended to go with pretty low-juice designs as a matter of course, from what I saw. There were some good reasons for that in terms of overall cost and battery life, but the first iPhone came out in 2007 and the first Android phone came out in... also 2007, I think, and it wasn't until 2010 that Nokia had anything resembling a credible competitor in the N8. And frankly, the N8 was a credible competitor to the iPhone and Android phones of 2008. This is a venerable Nokia tradition that Elop perhaps can be blamed for not doing enough to change.

But I'm pretty sure that MeeGo was doomed at Nokia from about five minutes after Elop was handed the same test unit that I saw in late 2010 -- and that unit, both hardware and software, was designed before Elop had been hired. The idea that there was an internal war that crippled it seems completely plausible to me, but it would have been a war between Symbian and MeeGo partisans.




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