Thread: Official: No (commercial) MeeGo for the N900
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TheLongshot is offline TheLongshot
2010-05-25 , 20:32
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
Most people would expect a company to have learned from prior mistakes. It's 2010, not 2000.
Point being, such "mistakes" continue to this day. Nokia isn't alone in this. (See the HD2)

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.
I'll disagree with you that hope is dead for the N900 simply because there won't be an official MeeGo build for the N900. The hope shifts now to applications, which is the lifeblood for any platform, and that gets a boost with pr1.2 with QT 4.6 and the opening of Ovi Store. With a compatible framework and a commercial store, that opens things up for more applications, potentially. If we didn't have that, I'd have to agree with you.

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.
Considering it seems the average phone user changes devices at least every couple of years, if not more often, I think that's less of an issue than those used to the tablet market.

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 don't think it was a bad decision at all. Until they allow me to use a stylus on a capacitive screen, I'll probably never feel comfortable with it. I also prefer a h/w keyboard as well over touch screen.