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Originally Posted by rm42 View Post
I think it is a great move. The one advantage Android had over Maemo was that it could be licensed by other manufacturers while Maemo was exclusive to Nokia. That advantage is gone. That should bring in more third party interest, both from software and hardware developers. I expect my N900 to last me about three years. I foresee it running Maemo for the first 1.5 to 2 years. I will probably switch to MeeGo for the third. Then I will probably want to get a new device with more hardware resources.
that was more or less my point about ten pages back, it seems to have escaped the notice of just about everyone else.