Coverage of Sotiris Makrygiannis et al leaving Nokia

Editor: Ryan Abel

Much has been made of Sotiris Makrygiannis, known on Twitter as "melsop74", leaving Nokia. Sotiris Makrygiannis, who has held a variety of positions inside Nokia, most recently as director of applications for MeeGo, has left the company this week. CEO Stephen Elop has made it clear on a number of occasions since announcing the company's Windows Phone strategy last year that MeeGo (and specifically the Harmattan flavor employed by Nokia on the N9) had been relegated to sideshow status, and the departure of Makrygiannis &emdash; long a staunch, vocal supporter of MeeGo in the community &emdash; would seem to suggest that the bottom has fallen out of whatever remaining support his team had been getting internally. Likely this, and the continuing stream of talent leaving Nokia, garners little surprise from readers of this website, as the final end for MeeGo at Nokia has long been in the making, and this is simply another (non-trivial) step down that path. It is unfortunate to be reminded of the casualties of the decisions made at Nokia over the past year, and we wish all those displaced by the Elopocalypse luck and happiness in their new endeavors.