Thread: Official: No (commercial) MeeGo for the N900
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gerbick
2010-05-25 , 20:18
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Originally Posted by TheLongshot View Post
How does this differ from most phone OSs? WinMo has been doing it for years. Android has similar issues, where owners are at the mercy of the manufacturers if they are going to get updates.
Most people would expect a company to have learned from prior mistakes. It's 2010, not 2000.

Now, I bought my N900 with the full understanding that Harmanhattan/Meego might not come for it. I was fine with that, since the OS runs fine for me for the most part. As long as most major bugs are taken care of, I'm not too worried about my device. As you continue to use your N810, I expect I will continue to use my N900 for a while, particularly if capacitive screens are the future.
I don't think you quite get what I mean. I'm merely asking when will it stop? 770, N800, N810, N900. So many bugs were left in Diablo (Maemo 4.1) that still persist and they're around closed bits in an "open source" OS. Irony withstanding; when will it stop?

Most people knew that Harmattan was not going to make it to the Fremantle device; however read the threads around here and you'd see that hope was still alive.

Hope is now fully dead. Stabbed in the heart by a protracted, 6 month delayed answer from Nokia that finally, and clearly stated what most people had assumed to be true already - the N900 was a dead end. The early adopters largely knew; the new users, or the people in Hong Kong did not - it just got launched there.

If Meego does come, I'll be happy. If it doesn't come, it is likely I'll still be happy, since I'm mostly happy with the phone as it stands now.
I'd honestly have to say that you have the healthiest outlook of anybody about this situation. I don't disagree with your stance; I just wonder how many times will people continue to support Maemo/MeeGo when each device is a dot-revision away from obsolescence based on whatever whim Nokia comes across.

The decision for resistive screen was basically a bad decision - capacitive is their future now. Multi-touch (which we all knew was never coming to the N900) will be the new drive forward.

I get the cost of advancement; I don't have to actually like it nor fully go along with it. Nor do other upset Nokia NXXX owners.
 

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