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Originally Posted by daperl View Post
Sorry, but the continued improvement of iOS isn't comparable to the transition of Maemo to an every-person's phone OS. But please don't get me wrong, I can list more Nokia mistakes than you can. That's not the point though. Only one thing matters to me: What direction they're going. For handheld hardware coupled with an OS, Nokia's the only one I see going my way. But I can also see myself buying products from other companys that align themselves with the likes of a MeeGo or a Ubuntu.



When things evolve they generally become incompatible with the previous species. I like the idea of MeeGo; it's closer to what Maemo should have been in the first place. Rome wasn't built in a day, in was built in step 5 and there were many casualties.
The N900 was available in November/December of 2009, but some didn't get it before well into 2010. In spring 2010 (mars/april?) it was announced that Maemo will be discontinued, MeeGo will be the next. MeeGo will not be supported on the N900 by Nokia, and by late June 2010 the first MeeGo (with UI) was available (development of Maemo stopped). MeeGo is incompatible with Maemo, and the N900 is hardly compatible with MeeGo due to multi-touch and different screen.

This is not evolution. Maemo has not evolved, it has been killed. The N900 has not evolved, it will (presumably) be replaced with something else, something very different, and the "N900 lineage" is killed.
 

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