But you could say the same about MeeGo. Nokia could scrap it tomorrow and make Symbian the one true OS

That's the 2012 business plan. But we're set for Armageddon then so it's cool.

A QT 4.6 Meego 1.0 app that doesn't run well, or run at all on Maemo 5 1.3 will prove which side is right.

well, saying "no commercial meego" for the n900 sounds like we may get some kind of "meego lite" or "basic" that will run on the n900, but only comes with the very basic functions needed to operate a n900 as a phone. for everything else, we have to look after ourselves.

well, sounds like maemo to me.

if you want everything served on a silver tablet, you'd buy apple anyway.

new meego 1.0 release very soon. look that.

http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900

MeeGo 1.0 for Nokia N900, released at DD/MM/YYYY

That's for devs, will not have the MeeGo UX.

That's the problem. Too many OS'es to manage. Multiple Linux and Symbian variants and Harmattan was dead before it was even released.

Nokia's stated goal has always been to move toward the mix of Maemo / Moblin. Where Fremantle.next was Harmattan, there will be no Harmattan.next. Unclear if work on Harmattan will work toward to MeeGo proper, which means less maturity as a platform.

So if we're counting which has the least shelf-life, what does Harmattan have, -4 months?

i think the reason why most of us are so disapointed about this news is that nokia told us, that the nokia n900 will be the first device of many following in the future with the (new) os maemo 5 which will be THE os for the next high end devices... that was an official statement before the n900 was released... and that is a lie! meego will be the new os and without the support of meego for n900 it is still a lie...

and THAT is the problem!

now, after this news is official, what makes meego different to maemo? in a year, nokia could say that meego wont be supported anymore, because symbian will be the only platform supported by their fture touch phones? no one knows... and that makes me scared because i loved nokia phones since they exists...

If you guys think that nokia will still support maemo, that they will bring out more updates, believe me, it wont be more, it will be less... ask the guys in the other device-threads... its some kind of poor for nokia imho...

nokia always says, that they listen to the community... but i donk think so... and maemo.org will be... in the near future... never be the same... like every time when nokia stopped supporting a nxxx devices (and 770) in the past...

for me, this will be a big lesson. never buy a nokia nxxx... it wont be supported long... maybe, my next device will be something that talks moore@home... if feel this kind of desire... or again a nokia? i dont know...

just my 2 cents

Apple OSX Mobile released on June 29 2007, still on going support (updatable)
Nokia Maemo 5 released on November 2009, No longer support after PR1.2 (The End, GG)

lol Horay!!

Who said that there is no support for N900 after PR 1.2?
Besides, so what. I was gonna buy the meego device anyway later. No point for keeping the same phone for over a year since technology advances so fast these days

No, Nokia clearly, publicly laid out plans that included Maemo 6 (Harmattan) following right behind Maemo 5 (Fremantle) when details of Maemo 5 were first introduced. Maemo was to be the high end platform, yes, but Nokia never said they were halting development at version 5 of the OS. You misunderstood.

EDIT: In fact, more than a year ago, well before the release of the N900 and Maemo 5, qgil was publicly searching for an "i" wind name for the Maemo release after Harmattan.