What Jedi said. Been taught well, you have. I don't see what happened as a conspiracy for Microsoft to take over Nokia. That does not mean that I like Elop, or that Elop did not have anything to do with it. But, the way they were going, Nokia would have been erased from the map. They had a good OS in their hand (maemo 5) and were sitting on it, twiddling their thumbs, and shitting over the few adopters, gallantly ignoring it while shitting out "flagship" after "flagship" running Symbian. The problem with Nokia management started long before Elop started his stint.

MeeGo Harmattan will not be the main platform now. It will, however, probably be a viable platform, and that's a net gain. It's not going to be as hack-tastic as maemo 5 and the older OSes, but it WILL be open, and if more than a handfull of people buy Harmattan handsets, maybe Nokia won't forget its existence 5 minutes after the first unit goes out of the assembly line. You can't have your cake, and eat it too. You can't expect Nokia to make an OS catering to a single-digit number of
people, and then expect it to support said OS ad infinitum.

I have some reservations about the N9, but I WILL buy it. Not because it's a Nokia, or because it's the successor of my N900, or because of sentimentality, but because it appears to be a genuinely good phone, with an extremely capable OS that strikes a fine balance between ease of use and openness. We have already started discussing hacking the UI to bring it make it more to our liking! Yes, it may be the last of its kind. If that is true, then I intend to follow it down, playing the world's smallest open source violin as I go.