Thread: Here Is Why The PR 1.2 Firmware For The Nokia N900 Is Late
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2010-05-20 , 16:45
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Originally Posted by russo_br View Post
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...
MeeGo is supposed to run on a variety of devices in its basic form, but the Nokia MeeGo version (formely known as Maemo 6, which still has Debian roots AFAIR) for the future device is not, it's only for new devices. So forget about MeeGo on the N900, it's only for developers and nerds. Maemo 5 is what it is, it's going to be improved.

I can't stand reading these reactionary opinions about "Nokia losing early adopters". What early adopters? To Maemo 5? There will be updates for many months to come.

Nobody ever promised anything and suddenly people feel untitled to a free upgrade to a completely new, partially proprietary system for a completely new device. Looking back at history, Nokia has *never* backported a new system to an older device, *never*. Be happy with hardware support in the basic MeeGo image with proprietary hardware drivers included, because that's already a lot, by Nokia standards.
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