Thread: What is the future for the n900 from now? meego or no updates or nothing?
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2010-08-06 , 15:33
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Originally Posted by slender View Post
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btw.
Just before i make any post. Please remember that meego(or itīs components) is /are developed fully open so Nokia also provides code to upstream from where people can make their own packages back to non officially.

This has already been happening with maemo if you have read bugzilla reports where people have made their own packages to fix modest and hildon-desktop.

So i do not know what to say about this kind of support which comes around loop to users from Nokia. Its not official but itīs something.
We agree on this. I'm not saying the N900 is going to die.. I am speaking specifically from a Nokia and official support perspective, which is important to consumers.

Hopefully, with MeeGo being as open as it is, the community WILL get MeeGo past Nokia's dropping off point, and into a very workable and formidable alternative (we should at least get flash, and OVI maps at that point)... but also remember: Several drivers for the N900 are closed source. I'm not saying this is Nokia's fault in that Nokia may/may not want to open the drivers, it very well could be the manufacturers fault, however it's Nokia's fault for using hardware that requires them to keep it closed.

In order to built a proper MeeGo right now for the n900 that won't cause issues and actually gets a nice UI - you have to download the build from an official nokia hosted code-drop. Not the general MeeGo download repo's. That is a key thing to remember.

Even if the community is able to extend MeeGo to a great working point on the N900: We can't be sure of a simple drop-in flash replacement image because of the closed hardware.

I could be wrong here .. and would need input from Stskeeps on that.
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