Thread: A dilemma: purchase N900 or not?
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2010-02-16 , 21:10
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Originally Posted by waleed786 View Post
i think many people are making things look bad because it wont support maemo 6/meego or whatever it is. I dont see how that makes the n900 any worse, you dont always have to have the latest software, maemo 5 is great as it is. Even if you cant get the maemo 6 on it, I wouldnt mind keeping the n900 for at least another year. And we barely even have any details on it so why do we like it so much? Windows vista came out after xp but its crap, xp is still on top. So we cant necessarily say that maemo 6 WILL be better.
Personally, I've only been a Nokia/Maemo user since I bought my N900 back in December, and I'm already fed up with Nokia's shenanigans:

1) Releasing a device with many small issues (power, Ovi suite, etc), keeping the community in the dark about updates (for example the surprise update that was made available last night out of no where)

2) Nokia being notoriously late on meeting any launch dates they DO reveal(N900 launch pushed 2 months, and still launched with above issues)

3) Essentially pushing the NEXT maemo/meego/whatever version two months after releasing Maemo5/N900, and providing no official word if Meego/Maemo6 will even work on N900.

There's nothing worse as a customer to have a device you've dropped some serious cash on deliberately outdated by the manufacturer two months after it was launched.
I guarantee every single IT manager would be upset if two months after Windows 7 launch, Microsoft started pushing Windows 8 with no official word on backwards compatibility. Or if two months after launching the latest Xeon processor, Intel started pushing the next generation with no official word on backwards compatibility.

To all the Nokia/Maemo trolls: This post is not for you. It is for those who are considering purchasing this device. Hopefully if others feel the same way I do, they will consider my experience when they make their final choice.
 

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