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Originally Posted by ndi View Post
This is about XP versus XP SP3, not XP versus 7. Nobody cried about Harmattan (well, me at least), we cried about fixes. When issues get "implemented in Harmattan" then the issues blur together.

Sure people are still using old versions, but nobody is updating that software. Many people didn't afford (to run) W7, but XP is still being patched and the new technologies like indexing and search and whatnot are still being back-implemented.

I get what you say and even agree with some (such as price not being and arm and a leg), but I still say that Nokia should get back to patching M5 until bugzilla is empty.

M6 should be M5 with new UI and libs, and additional functionality.

@jsa: There are counterexamples to that. N80 still has bug in contact searching, still has cursor blinking when calling, and last time I checked (didn't check in a while) "restore" was alternately not working and "backup" wasn't always successful. There is no backing up messages, bookmarks have their own issues, sync as well, images get re-synced with dupes in certain conditions, movies with double extensions showed up twice. I got a few, some with N80, some with PC Suite, which is worse IMO. Not exactly cheap device, either.
I completely disagree... it's not about XP vs XP SP3. It is also not about XP vs Windows 7... It IS about Vista vs Windows 7.
Many laptops bought recently only shortly before Windows 7 came out (same timescales as N900/MeeGo really) came with a free upgrade from Vista to Windows 7. Older machines and those still on XP can pay for an upgrade.

The problem really is that Nokia won't say anything about anything. They don't announce firmware updates, won't give any reassurances about how long firmware updates will come... nothing.

What I do know is this was heralded as the next big thing, the N900 and now only months after release Nokia are potentially besting it and never releasing another Maemo5 device. This instantly limits the lifespan of Maemo5 as it will simply just become unprofitable to keep maintaining and innovating.

The other thing I know is that Nokia have dropped new devices like a stone before. They've released unfinished devices and never finished them, instead favouring the release of fixed/"updated" new devices.

The only real information we have to go on is Nokia's past behaviour and sadly their current actions fit those same old Nokia patterns.