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Originally Posted by Bernard View Post
I fear that is very much open to interpretation. There are a lot of examples where the online services and the product were discontinued very early on (Microsoft Kin for example, but also a lot of online games for PC and consoles like Dreamcast)

Besides if a big company like Nokia just happens to disagree, ultimately the customer will get screwed. Sure, you could take it to a consumer authority or even a court, but that will take ages compared to the lifespan of the average mobile phone. And what will it get you? Your money back? A Lumia in exchange? That isn't what I want, I want those services operational for at least two more years (Approximately the time I intend to keep using my relatively new N9 as my primary mobile).

Luckily shutting down these services also isn't in the interest of Nokia, since it would make a group of happy N9 and N900 customers very angry (and probably cause them to not buy a Nokia phone again).
N900 & N9 customers are, despite the sales figures of later a small minority
far less then N8 buyers
Maemo / MeeGo were always research platform(s), not commercial devices.
thus frustrated users from that (relatively) small group is alas not a big concern.
much more of interest is the potential for R&D.
m$ platform is totally useless for that, thus a platform NOKIA has full control over (like Maemo) does make sense.
alas, common sense doesn't seem to be management's primary concern now, does it?
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