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Hi Krisse, thanks for coming back. I hope you stick around! In my opinion you really made a difference in this community.

I disagree with all your assumptions but we have discussed this already and I understand it is an unfair dialog since I have access to the internal information. Still, you keep saying Maemo is kind of a dead-end and I keep saying that Nokia is investing heavily on it (like having new positions open in these times of layoffs everywhere, 3 of them opened just last week). I also wonder if you are aware of the information given to and extracted by the community from the Maemo 5 pre-releases.

Anyway, time will tell. Let me only say two things on your interesting post:

Originally Posted by krisse View Post
the promised maemo.nokia.com (which was supposed to be the official consumer site for the N810) has failed to materialise
I might be wrong, but maemo.nokia.com was conceived for Maemo 5 onwards. For the N810 (and N800) there was and is http://nokia.com/OS2008

Even Nokia's software like their excellent Tablet Video Converter has been officially abandoned now.
If you find it excellent then it means its purpose for the current Internet Tablets has been accomplised. Converting video is probably less and less relevant as hardware gets more powerful. In any case there are open source community alternatives filling the very same purpose. Why duplicate on a non-core use case? We better concentrate on the areas where the community can't reach so easily.

If the next maemo devices are products people are likely to buy in large numbers, I'll be back to do tutorials, but if they're just more hacker toys then there's absolutely no point bothering.
Ok, this is a concrete answer about Tablet School. What about Tablet Scene, the topic of this thread?
 

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