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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill @tomiahonen @fuchsiii

And #MeeGo aka. #Maemo kinda was lauched dead in the water, with even less support than the #OpenMoko powered FIC Neo1973 in it's days, which was as approachable to #TechIlliterates as a F-22 cockpit to an illiterate…

Vivaldi SocialAJ Sadauskas (@ajsadauskas@vivaldi.net)@kkarhan@infosec.space @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange @fuchsiii@oxytodon.com On Nokia, I know @tomiahonen@mastodon.world is on Mastodon, and might be able to shed more light on what happened internally there? But the short version is Nokia chose the worst of all possible worlds by going with Windows Phone. Yeah, Symbian was reaching the end of its life. There were three choices to replace it: a) MeeGo. Ended up only shipping on one phone: The Nokia N9 in 2011. People still rave about that phone today. Possibly the best option. b) Android. Basically, what Nokia's successor HMD is doing, except they would have had far more momentum by going early. c) Windows Phone. History shows how that multi-billion-dollar blunder worked out. And I liked WP. I used it for around a year at one point. But MSFT completely mishandled it. As for Firefox OS, I think Mozilla completely misjudged the market for it. No, the first market for an open source phone with an app ecosystem based on open web standards shouldn't have been underpowered devices for emerging economies. It was for people who run Linux on the desktop at home, people who run deGoogled Android, and people who work in software development/IT/InfoSec.
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icaria36 🎶

@decibyte Maemo, Qt, 770, N8**, N9**... I feel very fortunate for having been there most of that ride. The N900 was a memorable device indeed. I have crossed paths with a few former users over the years, people seemed to really like it.

#Maemo (and that side of #Nokia) was a very exciting and ultimately very sad European tech & business story.

@qt is still doing well! Very good for them. The trolls have been as flexible and tout-terrain as their software all along.

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icaria36 🎶

I remember when Soundcloud started back in 2007-2008. Back then I worked at the #Maemo team and my colleague Jussi came from #Berlin explaining how cool this project and these people were. Soundcloud would become a platform supporting a lot of the music and the artists I like.

Soundcloud has lost its cool, sure, but look what happened to the rest. And I have been a paying customer in the past couple of years and I think they are improving. Not the rest.

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Macer

so does this whole thing with #apple mean we will finally be getting a fully functional #linux phone that doesn't suck? it would be great if fxtec started selling phones again. the last legitimate linux phone was the nokia #n900 running #maemo and i really wish we could get back to those days.

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Andrew Flegg

@danct12 #Nokia did a (soft) launch party for the #N900 at the BFI on the South Bank in London in September 2009.

lcuk had had a prototype, so we were able to do a cool demo: youtu.be/yk27PenpAz0

#RetroComputing #Maemo #MeeGo

_EDIT:_ I note wryly that Nokia's blog post about this is now on the #Microsoft website: blogs.windows.com/devices/2009

YouTubeThree N900s, liqflow and musicBy aflegg
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