Thread: What is the future for the n900 from now? meego or no updates or nothing?
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2010-08-04 , 08:20
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Originally Posted by abubakar View Post
some of you guys saying you want a stamp like thing from nokia representing support from it for n900 makes me go back and question the purpose of SDKs. There shud be none right, cuz the company releasing the hardware should own everything and guarantee the support of every uniqu capability that device should have! Damn.

SDKs exist to make things possible that no company can achieve alone. This n900 has a community support and far superior technologies to develope software for. Everyone shud be thanking they got such an open and totally extensible piece of software and hardware. Gosh we are never happy.
I imagine using n900 for a long time even when i have another cool hardware to use as a phone. I dont know how many companies can do a thing like n900. Kudos to Nokia.
Most companies offer SDK's that is nothing new however when it's stated there will be no future support it then comes down to the community which sorry only lasts so long. I am not saying anything bad about the community, we have a great number of developers however in just the hands of the community it's only a matter of time before support drops off.

Sure we will probably see a hack version of Meego or who knows what else but again it then falls to the community and those willing to keep with the device. This isn't just about the N900 but a lot of devices. Unless the company is willing to place some effort buyers will decline for a product with short shelf life ( Yes I know everything these days have a short life ), just the SDK doesn't cut it to me.

Horrible example to bring up but only one I can think of atm. iPhone 3GS old phone yet still able to upgrade to the latest and greatest iOS. Yes they started cutting official support to their much older devices but in the example of the N900 it's not that old. To me if Nokia simply said "We will offer an upgrade from Maemo5 on the N900 to Meego" I bet almost everyone would drop these threads.