Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 6 Jun 2011

Front Page The moment Nokia realised MeeGo wouldn't meet their requirements An article in Business Week, pointed to by Engadget, documents the moment that Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia decided that MeeGo could not provide the future platform for Nokia: “At its current pace, Nokia was on track to introduce only three MeeGo-driven models before 2014-far too slow to keep the company in the game.” The problem with the account, which strives hard to present Elop as a considerate CEO with few remaining options besides turning to Microsoft, is two-fold. Absolutely, Nokia needed a shake-up, but Lou Gerstner faced simiar challenges at IBM in the early 90s and solved it by improving cross-company collaboration, reorganising the business and cutting swathes of middle managers. This, combined with the resulting cost savings from cutting headcount, should've meant Nokia were able to release three high-end MeeGo devices by the end of 2013; with Symbian filling in the featurephone market below it.

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Demo Of MeeGo 1.2 Developer Edition On The Nokia N900

When Nokia’s move to MeeGo was first announced, the burning question on everyone’s mind was whether the N900 would get MeeGo or not? The answer to that was that Nokia would not be officially updating the N900 to MeeGo, but the community would probably get something working. Then Feb 11, 2011 happened

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MeeGo 1.2 Release Now Out – N900 Developer Edition Release Set For MeeGo Conference

The MeeGo 1.2 release is now available, well in time for the MeeGo Conference that kicks off on Monday.

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gPodder on the N900 MeeGo 1.2 Developer Edition

If you want to try the MeeGo N900 Developer Edition for the N900 but think that clicking through the Widgets Gallery gets boring after 45 minutes, why not try out the QML UI of gPodder on it? It’s pretty easy. This post assumes that you are using the alpha release of the N900 Developer Edition from a microSD card and boot via USB

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