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It’s sad to see Nokia go the way of Win­dows Phone 7. Which is not to dis­count Microsoft’s mobile oper­at­ing sys­tem, I’ve used it and it is actu­ally a really great OS. But Sym­bian had a great fol­low­ing of mobile devel­op­ers, its sad they couldn’t have made Sym­bian a rival to the cur­rent breed of OSs, or at least tran­si­tion their focus to MeeGo. With Nokia not own­ing there own stack, it seems like they will sim­ply go the way of all the other hard­ware man­u­fac­tures, which is unfor­tu­nate because they have been one of the big inno­va­tors in the mobile soft­ware space. I would hope that they can con­tribute sig­nif­i­cantly to WP7, but we will see how that part­ner­ship goes. The N9 gave me a glim­mer of hope, espe­cially with my friend Igor say­ing that he had a great time with it:

http://igorskee.com/hands-on-with-nokia-n9-great-ui-screen-and-br#!/

Read­ing this arti­cle today was really dis­ap­point­ing though:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/25/nokias-stephen-elop-is-still-over-meego-even-if-the-n9-is-a-hi/

Why even bother releas­ing the phone when they have no inten­tion to carry on with it? At least if they sup­ported both WP7 and MeeGo they would have mul­ti­ple options. We’ll see if there bets pay off. I for one think that aban­don­ing MeeGo is a huge mis­take — they could have had a great OS with a sea of Sym­bian devel­op­ers to kick start them to suc­cess. It will be fun to see how this all plays out in the next few years.