There were a couple of nice blogs and articles/press releases recently on the future of Nokia as a service company and as a leader in mobile telephony/computing

For Nokia’s Ovi, the World is Enough - By Om Malik November 30, 2009
Nokia's plan for 2010 - Nokia Press Release, December 2, 2009

So in general I like what i read. focusing on services it looks like Ovi has potential to be successful and make an impact in November they had 61m users after 6m of operation and each user is downloading an average of 8 apps so simple math says that is almost half a billion downloaded apps - not bad, these numbers make the stat about being the number 2 app store realistic.

Ovi has an opportunity to be a real platform and distribution channel to rival itunes. I believe they need to focus on acting as a channel for services rather than a supplier. Consider leveraging amazons mp3 store rather than continuing to develop out thier own. They will still make money on each of the transactions even if it is less they get to focus on core competency.

Now when I began to look at the plan for 2010 I continued to like what i saw about nokia... though not as much in the context of my shiny new n900. If we expect to see Maemo 6 available in 2010 and no portability to the n900 does that mean the n900 is a dead end?

I know that through the magic of QT it is easy to port things across multiple platforms but I get curious about the incentive of developers to go through that process or even nokia to focus resources in improving the n900 experience. I think this will come down to the sales numbers of the device and the expected salse of the device over its life cycle.

Nokia Capital Markets day today, saying they will bring out Maemo 6 device in 2010, trying to find link to website

its in the press release posted above

Try reading the first post

edit: Nah, too slow...