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Originally Posted by TheLongshot View Post
Again, tell me what phone platform doesn't have this problem? Probably just the iPhone, and that's likely because all iterations are pretty similar hardware-wise. Even so, I hear that iPhone programmers code to the LCD anyways.
The original iPhone got 3 iterations of the OS. Apple has gone on record to state that all of their phone will get 3 major revisions of the OS.

Android, some phones have received updates from 1.0 to the upcoming 2.2. Not all, but most. That is a minefield in itself though navigating which ones will receive support. Thus, research...

As long as applications continue to come out, I don't much care if MeeGo comes out for the N900. As for fix persisting bugs, as a software developer by trade, I know you never get all of them.
Historically, once a new OS is announced by Nokia, the apps start trickling out and slow down to a crawl.

I don't look at it like that. I like that the hardware seems to be progressing, rather than the rather homogeneous hardware that is the iPhone. Then again, as I said, a capacitive screen with no keyboard would have been a non-starter to me.
To me, the "advancement" of the iPhone platform is finally getting their first upgrade in years with the iPhone 4G. The iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS were more "evolutionary" than true updates imho.

I understand where you are coming from. At the same time, I knew what I was getting into when I bought this phone. Most here knew that Harmattan was coming down the pipeline when this phone was released and that the possibility was always going to be there that the N900 wasn't going to get it.
Like I said... not many people know that in the recently released areas. And here, 6 months after the release of the N900; you have a seriously dead end phone. That's a new record in any potential phone I was interested in.

That being said, we are still a long way from Harmattan/MeeGo being in a real device. While we expect an announcement to happen sometime this year, it hasn't happened yet. We have few clues about what the UI is going to look like, since the OS isn't completed yet.
I'm patient enough to wait; I just have a right to have very little expectation.
 

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