Palm Hires Former Head of Meego/Maemo, Ari Jaaksi

October 14th, 2010 • • 6 comments

All things Digital claims that Ari Jaaksi, the former Head of Meego and Maemo is joining Palm as Senior Vice President of webOS. He’s expected to start in November. Ari Jaaksi resigned from Nokia earlier this month for personal reasons. I guess now we know what those reasons are.

10/09/2009
Ari Jaaksi taking a photo with the Nokia N900 at Maemo Summit 2009

Maemo is the OS running on the Nokia N900. It was released late last year. Meego is the new platform Nokia has co-developed with Intel. We’re expecting to see Nokia’s Meego device, the Nokia N9, by the end of 2010 or early 2011.

There’s no official confirmation yet, but All things Digital cites sources close to Palm. On a sidenote, Ari Jaaksi’s blog and twitter account haven’t been updated yet. The profile still says, “I run MeeGo and Maemo @ Nokia.”

  • Anonymous

    I’m not sure if it’s real. In the article is said that will start his work in november, but I think he has to stay at least 6 month on nokia. this is the time for leadership jobs. just my opinion

    • Anonymous

      Ari Jaaksi himself has now confirmed it.

      • http://thenokiablog.com Mark Guim

        Thanks, got a link?

        • Asdwdwd

          it is amazing how things turn around quick

  • Anonymous

    HP must have offered him a truckload of money to move to the US.

  • Anonymous

    Considering how much of a mess Maemo has been, with numerous false starts and too many steps backwards and not enough steps forwards, I really am not sure if Jaaksi leaving is any great loss for Nokia.

    Ari may have been instrumental in getting Maemo off the ground at Nokia, for which I’m sure we’re all grateful, but the glacial pace of progress in the 5 years since it was released can’t go without criticism. Maemo should have seen a mainstream release at least 18 months to 2 years ago – the fact it still hasn’t happened says to me that it was high time for Ari to move on.

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