Another example mentioned here: http://androidforums.com/

Or wasn't http://www.talkandroid.com/android-forums/ the "more official" forum? It's really difficult to tell who is who in the world of Android forums.

Actually the Android case is an example of clearly separate forums for developers and rest of the world.

The official Android "forums" are http://developer.android.com/resourc...ty-groups.html

http://androidforums.com/ is a private initiative from http://phandroid.com/ and both sites ar full of advertisement. I guess it's someone's business, and in it sense of course their interest is to embrace as much as possible.

Let's look at the situation around e.g. the Droid:

http://www.droidforums.net/ exists, from the same company putting up http://www.nexusoneforum.net/
HTC tries to pull their own Android forum
http://community.htc.com/na/htc-foru...f/default.aspx
Verizon too: http://forums.verizon.com/t5/Android...ndroid_Devices

About the Nexus One, apart from the mentioned private forum there is the official from Google: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android?hl=en
Guess what, T-Mobile has also a forum: http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/Nexus-One/bd-p/Nexus_One

And there are several other Android "community" forums there.

So the Android case (that actually as a platform/community structure is more directly comparable to MeeGo than Ubuntu) is not an example of unified forum, but the contrary: it is perhaps an example of extreme forum fragmentation telling us about a scenario we also want to avoid.

However, how much can we do to prevent that? Why device vendors, operators and private businesses would act differently with MeeGo?