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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
It just doesn't add up. If the N900 is the de facto ARM hardware reference device, then once they've finished with the OS, then make it officially available to all as an upgrade and officially support it.
An OS is never finished. Let's repeat this once more. A nice, clean, open OS is just one facet of the smartphone experience most users expect. In other words, are you sure you want to upgrade (switch would be a more correct term here) to an OS without Maps, Skype, Flash and friends, plus on which you would have no Ovi app support (which will be Harmattan oriented). I'm not sure what's the status of mail, instant messaging, etc, but I would not be surprised if that was also more rudimentary than Maemo's at this point. Yes, at some point, when Maemo turns old and grey, MeeGo will be the thing to turn to (with some components borrowed from commercial flavors), it's just that this hop will NOT be PR1.2 to MeeGo 1.1 for most users.
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