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Originally Posted by vitaminj View Post
I never understood the big excitement with the whole MeeGo thing anyway. Ok, a unified platform for multiple companies to us would be a good thing, but Nokia were the ones with a proven track record of shipping good and popular devices on their Linux platform, whereas Moblin from Intel's side was never used in anything so widely (afaik). I just feel like Nokia wasted their time trying to merge with something not very well proven and got no benefits from it.
MeeGo 1.2 (I think) sure looked cool on my netbook, though! Full of bugs, but well designed (there's a common thread here somewhere). It was a sad day finding out they'd binned it.
 

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