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Former Nokian, once MeeGo Chief and current head of the ceased-development-webOS, Ari Jaaksi had an interview with Finish newspaper hs.fi today and reveals some things on Nokia that was bothering him for a while.
For one thing, he left Nokia because he thought it was impossible to do his job as MeeGo chief, because ‘Symbian was like a religion inside Nokia’. Instead of using the better OS, i.e Maemo and later MeeGo, the priority was on the clunky Symbian Operating System:
“The biggest concern was how the telephone affects Symbian, nor how good the phone is or is received it is sold”
It is well known that there was intense competition between the MeeGo and Symbian Nokia Teams, but since the dated OS was seen as a ‘religion’ MeeGo/Maemo never had a chance and never got the attention it deserved, since Nokia was apparently afraid it would harm Symbian. If you’ve ever seen Maemo 5 on the N900, and put it next to Symbian^1 on the N97, you’ll know what we’re talking about.
Since all the attention was on ‘fixing’ Symbian, MeeGo devices were delayed and as such Nokia was set headed into the position it is in right now, using Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS as their primary smartphone operating system.
[via: hs.fi over NokiaGadgets and MyNokiaBlog]
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Poor Unlucky chap, while he was heading Meego, Nokia killed it, when he started running webOS, HP killed it. Lets hope his next assignment is iOS. :-)
Yes, I can sure vouch for that...
Just confirms what I think was Nokias biggest mistake of the last years: push Maemo instead of symbian.
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