[QUOTE=atilla;738689]I don't hate the N900. I bought it to replace my aging N800 and to consign my iPod, Tomtom, Holux GPS and Z600 phone to the pile of obsoleted stuff in the corner. In this respect, it has fulfilled its purpose. I thank Nokia for making it.

On the other hand, I don't thank Nokia for Osbourning it, and probably its successor too. I don't thank them for following up their "Fixed-In-Freemantle" mantra with the current state of affairs regarding future support for the N900. I don't thank them for half-arsed effort in applying polish to their applications or even finishing them (again). I don't thank them for not communicating with us; they solicit our feedback with forced subscriptions, by SMS and email, but provide little to us when we (the Maemo community) request real info from them about the future of our devices.

This is why I think Nokia suck. They sucked in most of these respects when I was using my N800 a couple of years ago, and only seem to have got worse. BUT, the N8x0 and N900 are awesome devices, and well worth having, despite Nokia.

Maemo has been a useful platform and the community that has grown up here has benefited from Nokias open attitude to development. I don't think that the Maemo team at Nokia suck. I do think that Nokias philosophy sucks, when it comes to supporting their platforms.

So, I'll defend the Maemo community, the N900 and Maemo itself (mostly), but not Nokia, although they could be far worse, they just don't seem to get "it". Saying this, they have started something that I hope will get better with wider support and more devices without the single-source aspect of Maemo.

My view of Nokia as a corporate entity shouldn't be thought of as applying to the Nokia employees we find around here though (although somewhat less frequently than in the past), or any individual. Finally, I don't hate them. They just suck. If they sucked less, I might buy their future devices. If my N900 were to vanish, I'd probably buy another, as there is nothing else out there that could replace it.

I've been here in the forums for quite a while, and quite like the place, and most of the people. I don't usually rant like this

Hope this answers your question.