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Originally Posted by qgil View Post
If I write "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again", will you also make similar conclusions?

What I want to say is: even if you are interested in the N900 alone here and now, developers (specially commercial developers) are interested in volumes and future plans. The perspectives of MeeGo with it's API compatibility across MeeGo devices + Symbian devices is much more interesting than the focus on the N900 alone. Today there is still no MeeGo release, no MeeGo SDK and no reference hardware announced, but you can get the N900 with Qt 4.6 official around the corner and a decent development environment. With your apps developed targetting the N900 you can also start practising the Ovi Store game and etc.

This is something developers understand and (let me insist) this is something useful also for concerned N900 users to understand. Even if it doesn't answer directly your question here and now of whether Nokia will support MeeGo in the N900 or not.
It is clear at least for me that QT is the path for developers and it shall benefit all Maemo, Meego and even Symbian device owners due to application portability. I also have no doubt that the announcement will only strength a really open Linux O.S. for embedded devices like we have know, changing the market for mobile apps.

But I am an end-user, not a developer, and features important to me like Ovi Maps free navigation are being pushed to Harmattan/Meego (and that's just one example, there are also other features that needs improvement & bug corrections, like email client, Ovi Suite compatibility, etc). From the N900 owners point of view it would be a relief to hear from Nokia a commitment to support Meego on our devices.
 

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