People seem to have forgotten that he's the head of SALES AND MARKETING.

He doesn't know crap and is sticking to a narrow range of categories. You won't hear anything interesting or useful from him.

I don't give a crap. He offered himself for questions, he should be capable of answering any type of question since he is head of sales and marketing. Even if he replied to my tweets something like "We are looking into it." or anything, but he keeps avoiding every Maemo and N900 question like he felt Nokia was guilty or something. I've asked if they will continue to support the N900 with future updates 4x. He didn't reply, not even "I cannot know that, ask the MeeGo/Maemo team". If that's proper marketing then I'm a yellow elephant. Screw Nokia and this dude!

hahaha...
sorry.. it was either that or start crying...
kinda makes you feel like little ophan annie...

He's not a shop seller, hes a corporate marketer. That neccesarily needs research into recent history at least. And the n900 is not that old. In fact isn't the n900 still selling now?

yea it is! and in some places it was launched a few months ago ... ive just tweeted him relating to this..lets see if he replies. :/

The crucial difference between Android and Maemo is in treatment of real-time applications. Android is a single-engine based system and it allows an easy manipulation of priorities and system resource (memory) accounting. So, in case of phone call it is easy for them to keep or free resources and provide a fast response. But it has a backside too - restrictions on real multi-tasking (not simulated one), restriction on daemons and client-daemon communication etc.

Maemo is a generic platform and it allows it all. But it is a very difficult task to keep/allocate resources for real-time apps like phone or even hildon window manager. Nokia tried to do it via cgroups kernel control but that stuff is not finished. They also hadn't enough memory in N900 and decided not to lock that RT applications in memory - and we see now sometime missed calls after video playback or music playing and other delays. However, it is possible with enough memory and CPU resources. Just keep in mind that generic platform requires more hardware resources than specialized one like Android (or iOS).

It is all about your word "suited". Another issue is a software choice but it has nothing special with platform... only Nokia treatment of open-source phones and customer support.

Oh gosh he thinks hes the messiah now, someone tweeted:

help me get me to #NokiaWorld2010

And he said consider it granted give me your details


Would be nice to get similar sort of treatment with the n900

hahaha people here is so damn whinners go out and get a life!

or sell your N900's and buy a freaking ugly Iphone 4 instead.

The Meego/Maaemo community doesnt need this and other threads whinners anyway

I hope you're kidding.

It's rather disingenuous and self-defeating to complain about Nokia's lack of engagement, then torpedo an effort to correct that.

You're confusing separate issues. Anyway, It will actually be good for Nokia to invite more bloggers/journalists to events. No "messiah" complex involved at all.

You got to be blind to think the iphone 4 is uglier than this brick.