Thread: Official: No (commercial) MeeGo for the N900
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geohsia is offline geohsia
2010-05-25 , 20:40
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Originally Posted by NvyUs View Post
why are people saying that Google and Apple offer updates to existing phones but nokia dont.
they are just updating a existing OS same as nokia do with PR 1.1 and PR 1.2.
no mobile device as ever had an official update to a completely different Operating System, they just fix bugs and add new features to the one existing on the devices, NOKIA have been doing this for years but it seems to made into a big deal if your google or apple
When iPhone 3.0 OS came out it was supported across ALL iphones, including the original, more than 2 years after the original.

For Android, its been taking a long time on some devices but many are moving to 2.xObviously there are hardware issues. Older hardware can not support features in newer hardware. Fair, but the OS still worked.

Do N900 users have an entitlement attitude? You may think so but we bought into a Maemo world where we were promised many thing that have yet to be delivered. Flash 10.1 being one example.

While I applaud the 1.2 release the fact of the matter is that the N900 is still very much behind in terms of stability and maturity of the OS. We want it to be matured and if that means Meego that means Meego.

Now, you say that Meego is a New OS but you and I know its not. Harmattan is not a complete overhaul of the OS. Harmattan is closer to being binary compatible to Maemo than MeeGo.next (Maemo / Moblin).

If you look at bug database it is clear that many bugs were deferred to Harmattan which is Maemo + bug fixes. If I have to pay $20 or $30 for a stable and mature version of the OS I'm happy to do so but right now from what I see 1.2 is a step in the right direction but it is certainly no Android or iPhone OS when it comes to maturity.

So Maemo users feel left out to dry because we have heard lots of great words from Nokia about how wonderful and important Maemo is and months after people bought in they dumped it and have moved on to something else.

If they say they will continue to iterate Maemo to 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 and so on to the point where pound for pound it is as functional as Meego equivalents then no one would care. Give us OVI maps, give us Flash. Keep iterating the phone so that communication functionality works well. Video Skype is a great first step but its still version 1.0 functionality.

If they do this no one would care about MeeGo (Harmattan) but I'm not holding my breath. By their actions they are fast tracking the EOL of the N900 and moving on to MeeGO and we're just left with broken promises which is why so many people are up in arms.