Hi there,

I think this is part of the reason why Neo900 and others got lost. too many conflicting requirements.

I bought my Nokia N900 in 2009 because I loved what it could do, the way it did it and the form factor it was presented in. The wow factor was a bonus. Especially when compared to iphone 3 and later 4.

But I was locked in to Nokia's systems, plus the various apps skype, dropbox, etc,etc.

At the time there was an amazing array of app's being created, many of the wow in themselves.

I then followed a route N9 (x2), back the N900, Jolla, back to N900 and now Galaxy S7. Finally the S7 has enough cool features that it has some wow.

The N900 was retired from main phone duty because most of the app's no longer work due to API's being updated and the browser, once the phones killer feature compared to apple, no longer works well with many sites.

If we demand a closed phone system then there is no incentive for any companies to invest in it, so it will be a niche. If it is a niche, no developers will develop apps for it.

This was the folly (or deliberate destruction) of Nokia. If the N9 supported Maemo rather than Meego then the app community would have had a bigger market, instead they had 2 smaller markets. Jolla tried again with new OS demanding new apps, but tried to offset this with Android support. A cunning move, but annoyingly Android apps on Sailfish are hit and miss if they work, can be installed, or have access to GPS, etc,etc.

I backed Neo900 when it was billed as a Maemo replacement for N900. I withdrew my backing after the Golden Delicious fiasco, and by which time the Jolla I backed was coming.

I fear that the problem will remain, the same as what killed off Nokia in the first place. Without develop support for new apps and constant revision of old favourites anything with unique OS will be a niche product.

If I want to run Linux and do some hacking on an IOT device, my N900 is still the tool of choice, it is still perfectly able to function in that role. However I need so much more from the device than that for it to be my main phone.

What do I want? I would love to see modern hardware version of N900 with oLED display. But I would also love to see developers flooding back to maemo OS to support the device. One without the other for me would be the same as the ZX Spectrum emulator I run on my N900. Simply a trip down memory lane.