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In the german speaking community a famous site dealing with mobile phones in general and especially maemo is http://pocket.at in Austria or, better, http://maemo.pocket.at.
Lately they even launched a Meego area in the XING social platform which is officially supported by Nokia.

This normally would not raise concerns regarding a lack of independence as it is pretty normal to get support from the corresponding manufacturer. If there hadnīt been that incident with a MeeGo poll on the site: http://www.pocket.at/maemo/?p=4299

In that poll editor Helmut Hackl asked to comment whether people would be willing to switch to MeeGo as soon as it is available or prefer a dual boot solution. Which led me to the idea to state that Nokia needs to take action to improve the availability of software.
This resulted in a harsh reaction first (which had been edited to be softened down later on) by the editor and some comments I contradicted with. With the result of a strong reaction again.
I then wrote an even longer comment pointing out the lack of specialised business applications, the chicken-egg problem in software availability Nokias N900 suffers from and referenced the destiny of the Zaurus. It was neither harsh nor insulting nor personal. Somebody else acknowledged this comment in another post and wondered about the strong tone of the editors.
Some minutes later both posts were eliminated- mine and the follow-up. Interesting. More interesting: I am blocked for further commenting. More follow-ups of mine did not make it in the comments section.
The whole debate now looks like a "MeeGo is great" parade and has obviously cleaned up.
This sheds some interesting light on the site which gets even more interesting knowing that the MeeGo forum in the XING network is obviously only filled by a Nokia sales representative and Helmut Hackl. There does not seem to be a way to write own comments.
pocket.at on its main side has the Nokia logo in the sponsoring section and it seems as if their self-understanding of being independent and neutral as stated in their impressums section is no longer existing, I am afraid. Plus criticism affecting the site is not welcome at all.
So for me information coming from this site has to be taken with a pinch of salt. If I revisit them again at all.

However Iīd be glad to get a statement from there regarding this issue. The feedback mail address leads to nirvana. Well, the light sheds even more.
 

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