As far as closed apps go, maaaybe. Well, but we don't know that yet, do we? We don't know how these binary closed-minded source code blobs make their way into the compiling step yet until Nokia actually does one of these, documents it and lets us see it, right? And then, we don't know if the closed-source applications have a close relationship or dependency on those closed-source kernel drivers/modules.

If I understand things right, much like the closed-source nvidia drivers experience, if they made their device drivers/modules such that they need to be recompiled with every kernel, you'll ALWAYS depend on Nokia to grant you their blessing to run that new kernel on your device with the drivers to make them work until they tell you how they're linked/built/etc to work with the kernel build process.

Please correct me if I'm misunderstanding any of this.