Thread: Here Is Why The PR 1.2 Firmware For The Nokia N900 Is Late
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2010-05-20 , 16:34
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#245
Originally Posted by Tomaszd View Post
We can hope for Maemo 5 to be supported by a dedicated team for quite a long time and have a MeeGo development platform on the N900, but not a full, Nokia-supported upgrade path with Maemo5-like functionality and proprietary applications. This is how this business works, but also because of the multitouch capacitive screen the MeeGo device is going to have (this is confirmed), some (maybe many) usage scenarios will simply not function on a resistive, single touch device. So an official upgrade path is a no-no. Everyone is invited to install the MeeGo image with Handset UX, but don't expect much.

I will be glad to be proven otherwise, but that's how I see it and I think it's closer to reality than many of you imagine.
Although you are probably right about Nokia not supporting Meego due to business decisions (and thus losing a lot of early adopters customers in my opinion!!), it won't be anyway related to hardware differences like capacitive displays. Meego is supposed to run on a variety of devices, and some of them may even not have a touch screen at all... Capacitive screen is by any way a requirement to run Meego, so it can't be used as an excuse to not officially supporting an upgrade to Meego on N900. For me at least, if Nokia announces it will just release bug corrections for N900 and let the community build a Meego version for N900, it would the sign that Meego is destined to fail on its fight against Android and iPhone, keeping Nokia to the low-end market share with Symbian...