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I originally started this blog for one reason: I felt that I needed to communicate the strategies we were executing especially in the area of open source. I was responsible for the most part of it at Nokia, and I thought you wanna hear it from me. Thank you for all the feed back. All of it!
From the early days of Nokia 770 everything has changed. We did turn the company around and put both open source and MeeGo into the center of Nokia. We released Nokia's first Linux and open source based smartphone, the Nokia N900, and participated the creation of the Maemo community. We then joined forces with Intel and others and created MeeGo operations to continue that work we started. And my dear colleagues and community members continue doing that. It will be a great success!
But I moved on. I started at HP / Palm 3 days ago. I'm exited and thrilled about this opportunity. I've always been a great fan of webOS and I'm now proud to be a part of this great team. One of the first things I did even before joining was to install and try out the SDK. I was impressed to see how easily I got started with it!
I do not know yet what are my future needs for communicating through this channel. Palm seems to have good publicity actions going on, such as developer days and sites. But we will see .... talk to you soon!
From the early days of Nokia 770 everything has changed. We did turn the company around and put both open source and MeeGo into the center of Nokia. We released Nokia's first Linux and open source based smartphone, the Nokia N900, and participated the creation of the Maemo community. We then joined forces with Intel and others and created MeeGo operations to continue that work we started. And my dear colleagues and community members continue doing that. It will be a great success!
But I moved on. I started at HP / Palm 3 days ago. I'm exited and thrilled about this opportunity. I've always been a great fan of webOS and I'm now proud to be a part of this great team. One of the first things I did even before joining was to install and try out the SDK. I was impressed to see how easily I got started with it!
I do not know yet what are my future needs for communicating through this channel. Palm seems to have good publicity actions going on, such as developer days and sites. But we will see .... talk to you soon!
posted by Ari Jaaksi at 11:39 AM
15 Comments:
It's been silent here, thanks for continuing your blog! I've always enjoyed reading your thoughts. Your move makes it perhaps even more interesting though I'm deeply a MeeGo fanboy :^)
Ari - I was on summer vacation (September) while you left so did not have a chance to thank you in person. Thank you. Your passion was beacon of hope for me. HP/Palm I am not so sure yet but then again I don't need to be, just you. All the best, Juha
Best wishes for your new job.
The first phone I owned that had serious PDA capability was a Kyocera that had the Palm OS software built in. It did the job well.
But I have owned more Nokia phones and devices (770, N800 and the N900 in that latter category) than any other brand.
It will probably remain that way - even if I did own the first 3 iPhones, I'm unlikely to return to Apple for phones.
You have had an impact, Mr Jaaksi. That is a good thing to be able to say.
I also say thanks for continuing your blog! I've always enjoyed reading your thoughts!!!
I am looking forward to hear more about webOS!!
Good luck in your new job and thanks for what you've done so far.
I'll keep on reading it here !
I hope you're able to bring games to WebOS, as games is what makes customers happy about the device =)
Well Ari it was certainly an interesting ride and I appreciate you getting it going. Helping launch the N800 was one of the high points of my career, and staying involved with Maemo/MeeGo communities has opened up a lot of doors. I have you to thank for that. So thanks. And success in your future endeavors!
I liked the N900 alot! and I really hoped it would continue too step 5....
But atm. looks like your decission to move on from Nokia was good decision for you but maybe bad for nokia ;)
Just heard new rumors about Nokia going more winmobile in the future :-( Not official ofcource but I am not sure on Meego anymore Maybe its time to go WebOS for me as a enduser... I dont now how open that platform is thought..
Anyway... best wishes for u new job.
Hei! I just learned you left Nokia to HP. It was great to work with you and Maemo. Good luck in your new place!
Jesus Climent
i like ari jaaksi thanks for this article sharing
Best of luck man for your new job. Keep focus on goals.
i learn new things after read your experiences.
I love it! Can't wait for the conference too, it's going to be great. And I'm 100% with you on the boob sweat. It's just plain unnecessary!
Ari,
Is it true that you knew Elop was going to kill MeeGo and bring in MS?
don't quit using this channel man. we learn a lot from your posts and people really have a need of your experiences to learn more and more. .well gud luck for your future :)
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