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I agree. with you on this one.

way to many if's about his issue. it sound like something that nokia should be doing. RIP maemo 5, it could only last through ONE device lol crazy. MeeGo is for the mass market and different phone/ electronic devices. it will get all the support and attention.

history will repeat itself on this one. RIP n900

I will love to be proved wrong, But nokia is very quiet about everything n900 lately, i'm not sure whats going on.




Originally Posted by anonym View Post
Stskeeps,
I really wanted to be persuaded by this post, but I don't feel reassured at all. Let's go through the list of questions you say we should be asking:



This seems to be an unkown. If Nokia would explicitly pledge long term driver support, I'd feel a little better.



Production quality? I have my doubts... It certainly won't be possible if Nokia doesn't provide all the drivers, right? In any case, if the community can make MeeGo run on N900, doesn't that prove beyond all doubt that Nokia could have done it themselves? It sure feels like they're dropping support to save on development costs and force hardware upgrades. This isn't just an annoyance to N900 users, it's also a terrible idea from a business perspective -- this is no way to build momentum and loyalty for the platform.



I'm sure they will. Does that justify package-incompatibility between Maemo 5 and Harmattan? They've done this with every Maemo major release, and it needs to stop. What kind of "platform" requires every package to be modified/rebuilt for each significant OS revision? Certainly none of the desktop OSs, and not the iPhone. As someone said on Ari's blog comments, "It's going to take a long time to catch up to the iPhone's 140,000 apps if our total keeps getting reset back to zero every 6-18 months. The best way to obtain lasting user- and developer-loyalty is through platform stability and long-term support."



Ari already said that OVI maps navigation isn't coming to N900. Maybe it could work via a community port of MeeGo, but Nokia won't be making any effort to ensure that it does.

Are my concerns all invalid? Please, I sincerely want to be convinced, but as it stands I just can't see buying another Nokia.

Last edited by felbutss; 2010-02-21 at 00:21.