A Nokian's argument with Stephen Elop
Felipe Contreras has posted about an interesting email exchange he had with his boss, Stephen Elop, over Elop's assertion that MeeGo wasn't ready enough to support the device portfolio Nokia needed: This is simply not true. Before explaining why, I’ll quickly say that I actually work on hardware adaptation, so if somebody knows the amount of effort needed to adapt MeeGo to different hardware platforms, it’s us. Plus, I closely follow Linux related mailing lists (linux-arm, linux-omap, linux-media, etc.), and know a lot of people in different companies that work precisely in this area. I have quite a few years of experience doing this, so I know what I’m talking about. As we noted, Nokia could release fewer devices and still be competitive; and if each one had the level of thought, design, and craftsmanship as the N9... well, that sounds like a strategy we could get behind.