I had very high hopes for Nokia's support of a truly open platform, but this announcement made me very bitter. So I'll keep this very short, because otherwise my post will turn into a rant.

My take on this whole situation is that Nokia is a hardware company that is incapable of writing software. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Symbian was actually acquired from Psion. Maemo was derived from Debian. Brilliant moves in their days, but once Nokia became their sole developer, it both platforms stagnated and eventually the market moved on.

I owned the N800, several N810s and the N900. Like many here I paid FULL price for my N900, a cool $650 (I'm typing this on a $300 laptop). I am bitter because I hoped the N900 would NOT be a dead end, or at the very least I could upgrade to another Nokia device running Maemo or Meego. I did not jump ship to iOS or Android, even though I saw those platforms advance by leaps and bounds while Maemo was the almost same since the day I bought the N900.

I might have even accepted if Nokia were to start making Android phones. At least then they would be running Linux, would be rootable, they would run custom roms, and they would have a LOT of apps. But instead they went with Windows, which is the absolute opposite of Linux. THAT is what makes this so disgusting!