Thread: How long will Nokia N900 remain attractive
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2010-12-21 , 17:26
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Originally Posted by theonelaw View Post
It is obvious Nokia is completely abandoning any shred of a decent open-source future.
http://www.unwiredview.com/2010/12/2...phone-devices/
A complete sell-out of the linux platform is unfolding right now at Nokia.
Anyone at Nokia involved with Meego had best be looking for a new job - fast.
The Meego stuff is getting a lot of frothy wishful-thinking fanboyisms
but the utter absence of any Meego handsets on the horizon
speaks volumes about where Nokia's Meego plans are headed.
Wouldn't it be fitting if they released the N9 with Windows Mobile 7 and announced, on the same day, pulling out of MeeGo for all but the N900 and that the community will be responsible for supporting itself and that they've halted all the Nokia licensed apps and support for MeeGo (i.e. no OviMaps, no Flash, no Skype, only the closed-source drivers that they provided with no future fixes/security updates, etc.).
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