I sure hope you're right, but this thread, along with others, give me the feeling it's too late for Maemo. Nokia's plowing forward and the best we can hope for Maemo is a few moments silence.

I feel like tugging on a rope tied to a aircraft carrier. It's just silly. Decision's been made. Maemo is dead, MeeGo is the future, and the future doesn't include us unless we fork over more dough. For how long we'll be in that future remains to be seen. Because the OS is everchanging and new versions have allergies to previous hardware.

Hey, it would be moving even faster if it weren't for those pesky users. By now Nokia could have made even more announcements, have organized even more launch parties, projected even more PowerPoint presentations and published more official looking documents with schematics and big words.

Because that's what you get when you steer a company with a guy holding a book. Textbook maneuvers, meetings, sterile marketing, official communiques, internal decisions with an up yours stamp, graphs, charts, more meetings to determine why the textbook maneuver didn't match answer b) in the damned book.

It's not final, there's always *someone* around to give us hope until the very last minute, before the decision is final and public and it's way too late to complain because 1.0 rolls out tomorrow. It's a nice strategy, if the final decision is official the day of the launch, there's no point in complaining, it's done all you do is look like a spoiled brat.