Sailfish OS Origins: From Nokia's MeeGo to Modern Mobile Platform
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Summary
Sailfish OS traces its origins to Nokia's MeeGo operating system, a joint $1 billion investment between Nokia and Intel to create an open-source mobile OS. The iconic Nokia N9 was based on MeeGo, but Nokia abandoned the project in favor of Microsoft's Windows Phone OS, leading to the development of Sailfish OS by the passionate team behind MeeGo.
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· 3 pulledSailfish OS's heritage lies in Nokia times, especially in the MeeGo operating system.
Together they invested around 1 billion USD to the project and created an open source based operating system called MeeGo.
Although the Nokia N9 became the beacon of open source operating systems, Nokia decided to end the project and chose instead to continue with Microsoft's Windows Phone OS.
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