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Yes I agree.
Though should have not switches to Mooblin (sorry but I never seen meego as a merger, only as a switch).
They should have continued on the Maemo path. Creating a second device on a improved Maemo 5/6 base as a successor to the N900. Quickly moving onto a QT UI and settle on ONE! (G)UI and API/ABI. (so no more continiously breaking of apps)
At the same time start rebasing Maemo on modern Debian, taking some bits and pieces from Intel/Moblin where it fits and improving the kernel with that Symbian knowledge. Then by the time Christmas this year there could have been a Maemo 7 or 8 phone. A small device with HD-camcorder and many apps, commercial and foss..
But that would have required one thing that Nokia never really gave to the Maemo/Meego platform... Commitment... True commitment...
Ah well.. guess HP is playing relatively nice now with WebOS... so maybe that's the future instead...
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I think what it all comes down to is that Nokia's MeeGo strategy was not executed well enough. Rather than make massive changes to maemo, they should have made incremental changes and continued to ship devices based around the n series.