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Yeah. It wasn't Elop who created one of the most dysfunctional software development units ever. He was brought in when the damage of previous bad management was just becoming fully apparent. Nokia in 2007-2010 was spending many times more than Apple on R&D. For that money, they got multiple infighting operating system teams each developing their own half-baked thing (Symbian, MeeGo, Qt, S40) and device teams that wer…
Qt was bought in part to attempt to bridge Maemo/Meego and Symbian. Problem, in part, was that previous Maemo versions, as well as Intels Moblin project, used GTK. With Maemo5 you had a massive culture clash, that pretty much ripped the community down the middle. Then the CEO was ousted, Elop brought in, and shit really hit the fan. Then again, maybe Maemo should have just died at that point, rather than be resurrect…
While Maemo was Debian in a mobile device, Mer/Sailfish at
this point is as close to that as Android is.
This is why the Neo900 is so interesting and needed because for the first time, we could get modern hardware in the n900's perfect case, with the community Maemo OS. I just wish it was easier to develop for that operating system >_<