Hmm. It’s been a while since I had a rant.

I think for every argument, there’ll be a counter-argument, so am going to try and see if I can grasp all sides in my head.

What the Council CAN do:

• Help organize events and sponsorships
• Provide Nokia with any information they request
• Raise awareness or provide assistance towards selective issues, to selective people with selective areas of power at Nokia

What the Council CANNOT do:

• Change Nokia’s business decision making (Tell them what to do)
• Clean-up Nokia’s Marketing Mishaps

Perhaps, a political analogy would be, the Council is NOT like a People’s Senate which can vote off the government, but more like an organized activist group.

There are many, for the lack of better terms, stupid or rather shocking business and marketing decisions made by Nokia. Whether it’s lack of resources or just plain stubbornness is unknown.

I would like to summarize some thoughts about Maemo:

• Better Long Term Planning, to be specific, Apps longevity. I think an application should be able to survive at least one OS upgrade before having to be re-written.
• Perhaps more open communication between the Community Devs and Nokia Maemo Devs, I believe Jaffa gave an example of that with QT 4.6 PR1.2. More of that is good.

I would like to summarize some grievances with Maemo 5 on the N900:

• Better Phone Application
• System-Wide Portrait Mode + Soft Qwerty Keyboard
• Frontal Camera Improvement

Now, here is the kicker, many of these may seem to be functionality lacks, or outright bugs to some, however, as I now understand, that to Nokia or concerned personal, they are FEATURE REQUESTS, thus they can choose to ignore them or escalate them to the next release.

That is quite understandable, because on the other hand, you also have many who ARE satisfied with the current feature set.

At this point, sadly, I don’t think we can demand anything. Another fellow pointed out what my current enforcement tool is, the next mobile I buy, has only a 5% chance of being a Nokia.