>"Currently, the decision to drop Meego for WP platform is mostly based on "hopes and promises"."
There's a long track record of successful B2B partnerships between Microsoft and hardware providers, a standardized hardware spec, an integrated lognterm roadmap, and a deep bench of talent in Redmond to provide support.
On the other hand, Nokia woke up to find iOS eating their lunch and realized that OS development was no longer profitable enough to consider one of their core competencies - the paradigm shift had left them trailing.
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>"Currently, the decision to drop Meego for WP platform is mostly based on "hopes and promises"."
There's a long track record of successful B2B partnerships between Microsoft and hardware providers, a standardized hardware spec, an integrated lognterm roadmap, and a deep bench of talent in Redmond to provide support.
On the other hand, Nokia woke up to find iOS eating their lunch and realized that OS development was no longer profitable enough to consider one of their core competencies - the paradigm shift had left them trailing.
Some strongly disagree with the `successful' part: http://www.asymco.com/2011/02/11/in-memoriam-microsofts-prev...
Successful for Microsoft, indeed. How much money does Dell make on an average Laptop?
Nokia should have taken the meego-road.
Dell had more operating income last year than eBay or Amazon or Adobe.
Michael Dell is worth $15 billion.
I guess we have different measures of success.