maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - what is this community prepared to do for us regarding the N900?

slender	2010-08-17 , 13:43
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Originally Posted by twigleaf1976

I look forward to humble pie when PR 1.3 is the last one. It took ages for 1.2 and 1.3 is due on that time scale to be well after Meego is live.

It took ages compared to what? 1.3 due? No-one knows, or actually only Nokia internals know what is schedule for that.

The support department for Nokia are not doing anything for the N900, what is there that the community hasn't already struggled with a workaround for. And Nokia seem content to keep half written and Beta software working than fix it. I use OVI store as the prime example.

Please Watson tell us more about this! (krhm. we have had these conversation about n+1 times here and probably everyone agrees)

I do still find the comments funny that think Nokia support Maemo NOW

Find funny? If you look bugzilla you see that they are fixing still maemo stuff and if you look opensourced stuff you see that they are providing fixes there (how to compile some of that stuff to maemo is totally community depended). Trying to say that support means different things to different people. To some support might mean that Company x makes drivers fully open source and STOPS developing. Giving drivers away as open source could be seen as lifetime support to community. So again everything depends on point of view.

, never mind stopping it in the future. They certainly DON'T support the N900 if OVI (suite, store, maps) is anything to be measured against.

True. Then what?

Ask yourself why USB connection prompts 'PC suite' and 'mass storage' when OVI suite is the next generation of connection software. And 8 months later, OVI suite still doesn't support this phone 100%?

Sucks big time. And your point is that because N900 doesn't support ovi fully it means that there is no anymore support?

Returning to the OP. I think you need to change the website's name for a start. It isn't Maemo.org for much longer and you can't support the N900 if most of you shift to Meego. Any future sap buying into the hype and going Meego on future devices will be confused to find a forum of abuse against Nokia for lack of support in a dead (officially) OS. I doubt I will be around then, I will have moved onto a working phone long before a 'make believe' PR 1.4 turns up.

As I said before to abill this community does what ever it does. Why should you me or him be so interested on about future of community? Life happens and then you die.

Why would anyone be interested about my, you or persons x intension around here? Why would someone here care that you are going to somewhere else?

I will of course eat humble pie and stand shocked if a 1.4 does in deed roll out. But I think those who are not obsessed with the N900 can see the writing on the wall. 8 months for me and still way too many bugs to fix shows Nokia's involvement with both community AND their product.

There will be bugs to infinity. No-one has said anything about PR 1.4. Only thing what we have is meego N900 adaption which is worked by team that Nokia helps and for example nitdroid and who knows what else. Everything else is up to you.

Why so many posters here think that I, we, community whatever should care about their intentions? Why people are so passionate about what they are going to do that they have to yell it on streets? Come to Finland, Do that friday night in snack que and get beaten. Fo sake of it DO do not speak because no one really cares. Money talks and etc.