@kkarhan@infosec.space@ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill @tomiahonen @fuchsiii
And #MeeGo aka. #Maemo kinda was lauched dead in the water [social.vivaldi.net], with even less support than the [en.wikipedia.org] #OpenMoko powered FIC Neo1973 [www.openmoko.org] 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.