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I find it utterly ridiculous that Intel had so many of its mobile eggs in the MeeGo basket.

Another sign of how out of touch the Intel mobile team has been in recent years.

Bull. When Intel kicked off their Moblin strategy in 2007, no one knew what an iPhone even was, because Apple hadn't launched it yet. Later, when iPhone had launched, vendors were clamoring for a Linux based alternative to iOS, and Intel had huge investments in the Linux code base. They merged Moblin with several other distributions, and it had a ton of support. Nokia was one of the largest phone companies, and I would think it seemed like a sure bet to combine a Linux distribution with tons of support with one of the world's biggest phone OEMs.

What Intel could not have expected - nor anyone else for that matter - was that a little startup based on an Internet search engine would create a Linux distribution that would take the phone market in the space of just a few years, and that the world's biggest phone company would bail at the last minute to partner with Microsoft.

I was in the company of enough people picking their jaws up from the ground when the headlines first ran of Nokia and Microsoft that I know no one saw it coming. Now like a fool equipped with the awesome power of hindsight, you claim Intel was too out of touch not to notice. Yeah, right!