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#145
I am one of the N900 owners who are worried about its future. The reason is simple, most consumers want to know if Nokia will support upgrading N900 to Meego in an official way, not just using the excuse "the community can do it, it is open".

Nokia refers to N900 as a pocket computer, but they are behaving like Apple with this excuse. You can install Linux or Windows on a Macbook, it is just not supported by them... The big difference is that Apple only develop OSX, and Nokia will offer both Maemo 5 and Meego.

I followed the news and Nokia just didn't assume that will or will not support an Meego upgrade on N900, but I hope they decide to support it. The argument about N900 benefit from Meego devices due to Qt application portability won't convince me, since Symbian users will benefit as well.

In case Meego is not officially supported I am sure there will be a community ported version, but all closed source applications also won't be officially supported on N900 running a hacked Meego (even Ovi Maps is a good example, since Nokia set the milestone to offer free turn-by-turn navigation to Harmattan, aka Meego now).

Come on Nokia, please make up your mind and tell us soon if you will support Meego on N900!! Don't ask for all the Maemo community to join Meego if you plan to let N900 early adopters on their own...