Post B8QnFblEDeU1hktfou by uecker@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #B8QnFbTrGEaYpslnkG by mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
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Really really wish the "Elop killed non-Android Linux in the phone market" meme would go away given how every single other attempt to ship non-Android Linux in the phone market has failed with the exception of cases where the Chinese government has actively required it
(DIR) Post #B8QnFblEDeU1hktfou by uecker@mastodon.social
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@mjg59 Having this followed closely at the time it happened and also having owned an N9, I still believe that "Elop killed non-Android LInux phone" is more than a meme. That Android or iPhone were not beatable is a retroactive description that declares today's winners unbeatable, but is not how things unfolded at this time.
(DIR) Post #B8QnFgDNevNZWE6DFw by mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
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You're the new CEO of Nokia and the company has bet its entire future on a platform that hasn't shipped yet and has no compelling third party developer support and you're going to ship one high end phone running it this year and nothing else and it's not even clear when you're going to be able to ship any others and Microsoft is willing to throw a bunch of engineering support at you to ship Windows quickly, what do you do
(DIR) Post #B8QnFhdeMjzDvzOhqC by mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
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People should actually re-read the burning platform memo, this is not the voice of a man who turned up to kill Nokia, this is the voice of a man who turned up to find Nokia was already fucked and took what seemed like the only available option
(DIR) Post #B8QnFje4u7W89tc4mm by mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
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Maybe things would have been different if S60 hadn't done everything they could to delay Maemo, including a forced replacement of the entire UI toolkit so the (non-existant in comparison to Apple or Android) Symbian developer community had a porting strategy