Nokia hasn't said anything about my phone being bought back at full price after a year, either. Should I be enthusiastic about that possibility? These are reasons not to be enthusiastic. Unless there's anything to be enthusiastic about, I'm not.


You can say that, but as it turns out, my skepticism has always left me being right.

True. That's not listed on the MeeGo list as a pro, though. If MeeGo hadn't been announced, that would not have uninstalled anything either. Instead, MeeGo gives extra motivation for all the developers of said applications to restart the development of their applications, on the QT platform. Which means less updates than one would expect if they did not have to rely on QT on the next OS platform. So these are real issues where Maemo 5 has in fact been weakened on a mid term.

On a long term, the N900 users will always have the possibility of upgrading software forever if they put some effort into it. But that too was true before MeeGo. (Thanks, Qole!)

So, as an N900 owner I see a long list of obvious short term focus, funding and effort rearrangements. And I fail to see that any of the "new" benefits that will reach the N900 (next year) outweighs the downsides (this year). No, no one will take away all the things N900 can already do. But they will take away resources from development for the N900 and where these resources are put, is less of a gain for the current owners.

Hey, maybe we should move this part of the discussion? It's interesting but offtopic.