Thread: Maemo 6 and/or MeeGo on N900: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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2010-02-21 , 15:36
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Originally Posted by danielpublic View Post
As already stated in the OP and besides what Crashdamage said, the N900 is a computer that somehow justed got banged up with a phone in the manufacturing process.

If you understand that, then you see there is no need for worries of that kind. Since we got drivers and a nice warm and fussy carebear community right here :3
Of course N900 is very flexible and this great community can empower it with tons of useful software.
However - look at that from commercial point of view: What makes N900 attractive to potential buyers? Open source community? I do not think so. It is important for current users, but not as guarantee of product robustness and lifetime support. And so for 3rd party software vendors.

My point is: lack of Nokia statement of long time support for N900 seriously weakens product placement on the market, both from potential users and 3rd party software vendors point of view. I do not believe in success of N900 if based *only* on open source solutions. I do believe in success of blended open source and commercial apps platform - but here Nokia does not seem to be excited, they'd rather go for MeeGo yet without guarantee of backward compatibility with N900.
 

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