Not over yet. If it were, we wouldn't have this conversation. There's still time to bank left. Will they? Unlikely. We'll be here, waving arms an pointing at the iceberg.

That may as well go down as one the worst moves in Nokia's modern history.

You see, most people that jumped to tablets were already Nokia clients. When moved to tablet, they were MOVED from the overall buyer base.

Losing them won't make them jump back to N8, but to a competition tablet. I will. I'm not buying a dumbphone, I don't care if it films in 4K.

Plowing tablet division in the ground will not be free.

I don't think they will intentionally do that. Nobody's that disconnected. It is entirely possible for the buyer base to become slimmed through this "upgrade" they do.

Will they come back? Who knows?

Will it have an impact knowing that tablets and internet phones are now jumping sales like mexican beans? Oh yeah.

When business waves happen, you either go with it, or you don't; It's a LOT easier to keep a market share if you're fighting for a percentage of a growing market. If you stagnate, the others will grow past and your share will decrease as a percentage.

My wallet and I I no longer on speaking terms following THIS purchase. (I kid, I kid)

I never could understand this either. Nokia used to be German in order and thinking. 1 for low end and car kits, 2 for low, 3 for better, 5 for medium, 6 for slim, reliable business, 7 for the tech, 8 for style over features, 9 for feature over form. You used to look at a design and guess "61...what?"

Then we had the more ambiguous N and E. N was tech-oriented, E was business oriented, which is bad enough, because E has -e.g.- office, software. So basically the old N who had better hardware lacked in applications.

Then N80 (and higher end N) had office. Which is the point I stopped caring. I think they're down to coin toss now. "And then there was X".

Sorry, that "official sign" was supposed to be a link. The link was to a post that was the original announcement (or wave thereof) in which it was announced that MeeGo will not be supported over N900.

Ok, I'll be more correct and say "You can come, but no juice and we won't talk to you".

Yes. No official support means no bugs, no direct fixes. Look at the rate of support for officially supported releases.

You can run, but with no rights. Come, but no juice and we will pretend you are not really here.

I can adjust this indefinitely, but it's a metaphor and as a result, not identical to the situation. The fact remains that "dropping hints" of an unsupported install is DEFINITELY worse than what we had with M5.

And M5 was SO finely supported. Hey, maybe we can just get the platform and rebuild phone and patc... wait, those are still closed.

Either it's official and updates ripple through to us and we move forward software-wise, or they just build one to shut us up, at which point no updates (or some) for M5 and no updates for M6.

I wouldn't mind no updates. My DSLR has no updates, even though it's flashable. But you know what, I've hit the shutter over ten thousand times. NOT ONCE has it misfired, delayed, mistook, failed to write, thought about it. never have I set the aperture to 4.5 and have it be 3.5. never has it taken an image at ISO 3200 by mistake.

I could go on, but I'll summarize. Zaroo bugs, knowing it is a complex piece of machinery that constantly adjusts for wear, dust, a lens that was made by third party.

You won't see me at Sony forums crying for an update. There's a 1.01 or something that updates file format to ARW 2.0 and increases speed of who-cares-what. I couldn't be bothered, BECAUSE IT'S NOT BROKEN.

Fremantle is.

I'm sorry, I don't follow. I have no experience with Linux. Back over here, we have this thing called a HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer), where the OS works with the HAL and it mounts drivers underneath it, making hardware transparent for the OS.

Using this, one can run the OS over the same architecture simply by swapping drivers and adding a few mods to the UI to incorporate the differences in drivers. It's what allows me to swap my video card without installing a new OS.

I wish Linux had that.

(I am just being difficult, there is no need to enlighten me)

As for the back-release of drivers and open source, what can I say, I wish I was optimistic as you. Could happen.