Thread: Interesting article: Did hostile environment kill Nokia (The phone maker)?
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tortoisedoc is offline tortoisedoc
2017-08-17 , 09:07
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Originally Posted by Venemo View Post
Harmattan is Maemo. More precisely, the codename of Maemo 6 was Harmattan.
Yes and no; harmattan is not *only* maemo. See for instance qt on harmattan vs gtk/osso on maemo.

Point being, if they had sticked with Maemo (and gtk), they would have been ready for the iPhone already back during N900 era.
What I mean is; given they were so "frightened" by the iPhone, as they knew it would be mortal for their business; the N900 got ignored. Totally. You'd think in desperate times, you resolve to desperate measures?

EDIT: I guess gtk's single-touch nature might have hindered their plans?

Some wood for the flaming :
https://blogs.gnome.org/carlosg/2010...-linuxxorggtk/
Basically in 2010, one year before N9, gtk had multitouch support already. With proper backup, it could have been done in even shorter timeframe. So much for the single vs multitouch argument. Next?
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