I'm honored yet hope that you do not do so because of my often opposing stances to the wishes, whims yet yearning to be on something different than iOS and Android seems to be hampered by my lack of trust in any ongoing projects that have yet to surface as embraced projects by more than just us enthusiasts.

Simply stated, I've somehow gone from geek with an useful 770 that fit needs that I had been wanting and shoved them neatly into my pocket, or that guy with the N810 that loved every moment of hacking the OS and reflashing because Nokia was still interested in Maemo or what we had to say as a community.

Now? Nothing. We do not have a company that backs our rebellious nature. We don't have a leviathan in our corner, even partly now. And unfortunately, I've seen far too many community projects become stuff we all initially agree to as desirable, but they fall to the wayside because making a device, an ecosystem and an OS is damn hard. For those reasons, I applaud Jolla for delivering (now) two phones, attempting to scale up to an x86 tablet only to gamble somewhat.

It happens. We got the 770, N800, N810, the N900 and the N9. We got the Jolla 1, Jolla C and the Jolla Tablet.

We've rallied behind the Neo900. We've looked at alternatives and shared our hacks and our experiences. Heck, we've probably backed things that subconsciously we knew would fail but our want for some alternatives still exist.

It's that I fear that my faith has waned.

Camp Gerbick, eh? I hope it's a cheerful place that encourages diverse options and understands that we all have fun in different ways. Oh... and plenty of beer. Gotta have the beer.