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I haven't posted here in a long time, but i'll just say this.. It's up to me, you, US to make Meego great. We have the tools (QT) to make great apps and we have the knowledge to get it done. We don't need Nokia to do this for us. Just a few days ago we learned that there will be a way to use Android apps on Meego devices! That was done WITHOUT Nokia's help. We can show them that they did not make the right decision. Meego is and will always be the better OS for mobile devices.

It's up to us now. We just have to face the facts, move forward and hope that Nokia gives us good hardware to install Meego onto.

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We all bought N900's under the impression that the device would have a future. It turned out to be a "bait and switch". As much as I am still interested in the Meego phone it's going to have to be hands off.

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I am sure that's the day a MeeGo Nokia device will be in our hands. That asteriod has the fingerprints of Elop and MS. But anyhow, we have MeeGo to record the moment with :)

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Not worth anger... Anger only hurts the vessel it is carried in. And as has been pointed out, it is just a phone.

That said, I'm deeply disappointed. I have owned every internet tablet device since the 770. I've been a member of this forum for a long time.

But this is the cost of being an enthusiast of cutting edge / niche platforms. Rarely do the things we want line up with the desires of companies that want to make a profit.

I was connecting to the internet with a handspring visor pro using an IRDA connection to my Nokia 3320 over a decade ago. And as cool as that was, Palm screwed up their market lead and nearly went out of business.

Nokia's pulled the development rug out from under me twice now, once with the native gtk stuff and now again with QT.

I don't like where the platform is going. It has a lot of potential but it won't make it to a polished user experience any time soon.

So now the question is Android or Palm OS, where to go next to try and find a home for my gadget tinkering needs. Looks like Android is more promising.
David

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Harmattan UI and all Apps will be made open source so at least we can get MeeGo with Harmattan UI and apps on N900 if we wish

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This is SO true

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What I don't get, if Elop was really honest in his trial to recover Nokia and not sell it to MS, in order to compete with iOS and Android he could have just slapped Maemo 5 until MeeGo is 100% ready and awesome. They already have the code and Maemo 5's interface is much better than any of the competitors. Such a device would not take long to produce, N900 form factor with say a TI 3630. WP7 device will take longer to produce than either MeeGo, S^4 or Maemo 5. MS obviously planned this takeover long ago.

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http://a.yfrog.com/img610/154/zduoe.jpg

this how Much MeeGo still as a Future at Nokia, they cant even be arsed to add it on future projected net sales

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What naive optimism!

You never know.....

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your right maybe i read quims post wrong just on twitter

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They killed QT. I will not forget them about this. I hope they sell the Qt to google , since they have some problems with oracle, but I doubt microsoft wants that.
Anyway elop spoke today like he was working for microsoft and not for nokia.

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Can we customers do something and get OPK back as CEO :) At least he would have never sold the company and would take his time to perfect future OS revisions. He learned his mistake :)

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Believe me any ex-Microsoft director is really a trojan horse for Microsoft's influence

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I hate the fact Symbian will be dropped. WP7 is a chinese live wallpaper of an OS compared to Symbian.

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Here, I fixed it:
http://zdanee.uw.hu/meego.jpg

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I so believe you :) The irony with the WP7 announcement is that by the time a device ships, WP8 will be avaialable and Nokia will be behind yet again :(

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And the other one is thrown in hell to piss off those good, patient people in paradise hoping for a MeeGo device and the comeback of Nokia.

Finns, DO SOMETHING!!!

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Its truly a sad day for all of us...:(

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A sad day indeed :( Advice to you my friend, lower that CPU frequncy if you want the N900 to last as long as possible, you'll need it...TRUST ME :)

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Damn. If i had thought about it yesterday, i could have been rich by today. Should have bought puts on Nokia stocks.

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Ohhhkaay, can somebody fill in the blanks because I got lost...(tip:the first has already been done to you)
1. Maemo is already dead
2. Symbian is ___________
3. Meego is ___________
4. WP is ___________

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2. soon dead
3. good as dead
4. the future

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Most of my girlfriends prefer a 5800, E72, N97 and N900 over an iphone or other devices and that's saying something.

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2. Symbian is pining for the fields
3. Meego is not dead just resting
4. WP is weak phone

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A very sad day for all Nokia, Symbian, Meamo, QT and Meego-lovers.

This was a very bad move for Nokia - WP7 was in dire straits before this was announced, in a much worse position than symbian or meego. I don't think Nokia and WP7 will sell. The Nokia/Symbian crowd, which make up most of profit of Nokia, like and use symbian, and won't wish to downgrade. The American market will still see Nokia as a foreign and leftfield phone manufacturer, WP7 or not.

It looks like the N900 is the first and last truly open-source phone? Though, as others have said, I'll be looking to android and webos.

What makes me angry is that just one ex-microsoft employee can **** all over several great open-source projects and a great company in one fell sweep. It's like once a microsoft employee, always a microsoft employee.

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Keep dreaming of Symbian's and MeeGo's future survival. only way for that would be if Elop suffered a terrible accident...oops,didn'say that outloud..

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2. dying
3. dead
4. a 'never-ran'

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1. Maemo is already dead
2. Symbian is going to die in the next year
3. Meego is used to probe market response to a new OS.
4. WP is now Nokia's main OS

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This is what lots of people have done. Nokia stock has been shorted hard because it's the obvious thing to do from a pure markets perspective. Doesn't necessarily reflect anything long-term (I hope).

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This statement is wrong.

1. N900 is not the first FOSS phone - freerunner is I believe but the phone just sux.

2. N900 is not a truly open source phone - from what I remember stskeeps was saying only 50% of the code has been open sourced. (or something like that)

3.N900 is not the last open source phone, I believe there is a successor to free runner annouced but thats a dev phone.

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This is properly Naive - do they really think the symbian users - people who have already chosen the fiddly and esoteric operating system over android - will want to move to WP7??? In the markets where Symbian is really popular - asia, india, I don't see it.

D

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We are on it. My car has four of those and nokians keep my feet dry.

If you mean this mobile bollocks then there's no luck. It went down the pooper today. Nothing we can do. It's like the sick pet dog. There's going to be the day you have to let it go.

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Im uninstalling easy debian and power kernel. im gonna run it stock speed from now on...

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I had such thoughts too, nothing to be ashamed of.

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Sigh. Back to Android I guess. This really chaps my ***.

Nice job the the clown who decided this.

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This is a disgrace!

If meego/maemo drops I will drop Nokia for good.

Also thanks for shooting all the QT developers in the foot while executing all their work!.

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Wanna be my partner in crime :) ?

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Im just waiting on the SE Xperia Play, and im off.

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It was fun while it lasted, but my N900 is my last Nokia device. They have finally proved to me that they are not willing to stay the course on any of their development/partnerships/business strategies.

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