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abill_uk	2010-06-20 , 06:19
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Originally Posted by Patola

abill_uk, I have been following your comments for some time and I quite liked your insidious comments against Nokia, but... Sorry, this has to be the stupidest suggestion I ever saw on this forum.

What makes N900 shine is being a full-fledged GNU/Linux system, either with Maemo or Meego. Even Android, being ported to the N900, while not a full GNU/Linux, uses the Linux kernel. Wasting efforts with Windows Mobile on the N900 would be not only counterproductive, it would probably create unprecedent rejection for this device.

The problem here is failed support from Nokia that is the very reason this dilemma is with us now.
The N900 we have had the best part of 8 month now and when you look at the game situation alone it is abismal in comparison to android for example so the programming efforts on this community is mostly single handed from members contributing apps and games that obviously are not upto the standard of commercial entities.
Team work is needed to establish commrecial app porting to the N900 and then you have the legal side to worry about and to be honest it is just not happening up to now is it.

As for the OS omg what a disaster it is with apps and and installs from this community screwing up the basic os to the point of rebooting and failure to start up.
Progress is slow simply due to the fact of there being no real team effort to establish apps and games for the Linux based os we have as it is all down to individual effort it seems.
What is shining here huh? nothing works or excells that matches commercial software available for windows for instance, so as the apps etc are available for windows then while we wait for N900 progression which is slow stop go backwards sometimes, might as well think differently and get away from linux alltogether.
Lets face it Meamo is dead Meego is uncertain so what do we have left?.

I own my N900 same as everyone else so i am not prepared to wait wait for something to eventually happen when their is another route i can take, crazy ? ha it is great playing and modding and i enjoy this a lot.

You think my suggestions are crazy yet i alone have got usb otg working with 2 usb ports and a seperate charge port leaving the usb ports free for other uses, so if you think that is crazy then so be it but the attitude on here means no way right now i will share anything.