I don't think you will have a problem with people enjoying their Maemo 5 devices; people are having a problem with the fact that 6 months after the release of a Maemo 5 phone, MeeGo was announced.

It took a couple of more months for Nokia to finally acknowledge - the day of the PR1.2 release in fact - that MeeGo will not be Nokia supported on the N900. Instead of the oft utilized "Name another company that has submitted as much code to the Linux Foundation as us..." spiel, or "What other cellphone company has supported their phone past one OS"... if you insist on calling it Maemo 6/Harmattan/MeeGo, then the question will continue to arise "Why isn't Nokia supporting this transition on such a young device?"...

Don't worry, I don't expect an answer.

But I just wanted to say that your answering method is a bit "out of touch" with the problem. People support Maemo, people support this community. And ultimately, people support Nokia and MeeGo. But for the folks that have gone from the halcyon days of ITT to TMO... now you're pushing them to MeeGo now? That's three moves in 3 years.

And that's just not acceptable.

Neither is having a phone that is supposed to be Nokia's most powerful offering to date not be upgradeable due to prior Nokia based decisions (resistive screen, chip/gpu, RAM, screen size, whatever) and there's no contingency plan to support, even for one iteration the newer OS, even if it meant it would be a dead-end fork. That would give folks enough time to continue their support of Maemo/MeeGo, give then time to come to grips with the new Qt and ultimately allow them the time to afford yet another $500 or so phone in just a year.

The last part... I doubt there's a plan to assist those that cannot afford that update, yet again is there?

To me, Nokia's biggest misstep besides communication is the fact that you've used this forum to gather experience and yet you've ditched, dumped and forgotten this place the moment MeeGo was announced and the decision to not officially support MeeGo on the N900 was made.

Resolve that last part and the community might not be as seemingly soon to dissolve as it is at this very moment. Ignore it or push it aside with cavalier verbiage like "You'll just keep enjoying your Maemo 5 device" and you'll conjure up a backlash that I'm quite sure you will invariably feel on a first month sales count when your more mainstream platform withers like SavaJe or OpenMoko.

This community does more than support you. It could be how you people stay in touch with reality. And right now, that's sorely needed because personally, I don't think you are.

Prove me wrong via actions and not empty rhetoric. Ciao.