Originally Posted by Laughing Man

And an unhealthy dose of marketing.

As for the N900 taking away Apple's thunder. Nokia. Nokia's greatest problem (and oddly strength up till now) was its diversity. Except now it's biting them in the *** since they have two (three but maemo is considered a dead end in the future with part of it being merged into meego) platforms to maintain. Apple has one (well they have version differences). Android has one (well again version differences). But compared to Symbian and maemo it's not two different operating systems. And unless Nokia can get there focus straight by either focusing on one platform, or provide the tools AND support for cross compatibility it's going remain this way.

Originally Posted by ysss

What's stopping Nokia to license Android anyway?

Originally Posted by wmarone

Probably a bit of NIH, and the knowledge that they have two viable OSes, one of which is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Originally Posted by ysss

Think of how much coverage (mindshare) it would garner as it rides the Android news wave. How all the new android handsets will be compared with the N900, etc. Maemo would become a trojan OSS payload within a popular handset.

Originally Posted by vmajor

Re multitasking.

I disagree. There can be no compromise. Put tasks to sleep, lower their priority, make them release RAM etc., but moving away from true multitasking to some form of task switching or Appletasking (no, I am not being facetious, thank the visionary and charismatic Mr Jobs for that - he started the singlatasking on powerful platforms with NeXT, then original Apple OS (not true multitasking), finally letting go of that nightmare with OS X, only to go back to it with iPhone/iPad...and it is plain wrong).

Putting system wide constraints on what you can and cannot run at the same time is loathsome - and it is already done very well now on that other platform.

Getting back to N900 disappointments, well I for one cannot see much wrong with it the way I use it. I truly do see it as a PC. I make and receive perhaps 2-3 calls per day, but literally live online. N900 allows me to get away from my office and building and still maintain contact and productivity.

My three year old Nokia E65 is a much better phone than the N900, but it is also a much better phone than any of the modern touch screen superphones, so that point is moot. The best phone is still just a simple phone.

So again for the n+1 time, there are people that are rational and reasonable and not overly geeky/linux loving that genuinely like the N900. I personally think the N900 is great - with the few caveats like the bluetooth thing and lack of Ovi suite support - these two points REALLY p***s me off.

...and there are people that genuinely do not like or actively dislike the N900.

These are the facts and I am with the perceived "zealots" on this point; there really isn't much need to keep going in the same circle. There is a nice photo of a very dead horse sometimes used on another forum to describe the futility of such threads as this one.

V.

Originally Posted by ysss

@wmarone: yes, when you treat this as an ideological battlefield... I was making comments putting Nokia's bottomline above other interests, as they should...

Originally Posted by wmarone

Is this not an ideological battlefield already, plowed by Nokia themselves? After all, if they didn't think it would work they could easily have just dropped Maemo altogether and used Android by now, yet instead they're pushing for MeeGo and working with the Linux foundation.

I'd say Nokia feels that this is where their bottom line lies, at least for the high end.