Since this MS/elop deal I've ceased to consider Nokia as a decent and well-intentioned company, but if they can still prove that their single sunset MeeGo phone is an open (i.e. fully community supportable since Nokia can't be trusted) and otherwise fine device and the MeeGo handset community doesn't commit harakiri in disgust, I just might consider buying it. Nokia is no longer worthy of paying a premium for it though!

And if any of the Korean or Taiwanese non-primary partners of MS release such a phone they will now be my primary preference. Ideally the Linux Foundation would certify products that can be supported (long term) by the community.

Neither I nor anyone I know could care less about having an "applet store" with a gazillion of possibly/likely insecure vanity apps snooping my private data as long as I get the basic features (which Nokia themselves could've provided with ease...)


edit: note to pasih