Probably the most honest sum up of how this experiment is failing. In three years Nokia have moved at a snail's pace to accomplish an OS and device that others did in shorter time.

No real blame can be put on 'the community'. It is what it is, to a large extent a rather vile bunch of Apple haters that places more importance on repeating "I can gain root" and calling people "trolls" whenever an expression that differs is brought up.

The real blame falls on Nokia for half-assing the os being open sourced, for not following up on software updates on delivered applications, for mis-managing what could had been a good community of development (there are moderators where...?) and for having very poor forward planning and realizing the importance of getting things to market.

Then again, it's Nokia's money and they can do whatever they want with it. I still adore my N810 and I am extremely grateful to the people that still develop for it and I am thankful to Nokia for developing that hardware.

In the end, if you as a user or developer have enjoyed or even gotten value from this experiment then where's the harm? It's a tablet/phone/gadget. End of the day it doesn't matter. Once it's all said and done the only semi-permanent stain will be the one on Nokia. Not for 'being brave' to try out something new (which is great) but for showing a surprising amount of incompetency and ignorance in the space which will, personally, influence my purchase pattern for years to come.