Originally Posted by TheLongshot

Kinda a "no duh" statement. Technology always moves on and you always take advantage of whatever future hardware offers you.

But, that is all beside the point, because the main question is if MeeGo will offer the N900 user advantages over Maemo 5 that will make it worthwhile. That right now is still uncertain. As others have said from the beginning, unless we get an official release from Nokia for the N900 (unlikely), we will likely lose all of the closed-source applications Maemo currently offers. The question is, will there be enough from the MeeGo community to replace that? Time will tell. Same goes with MeeGo's performance on N900 hardware.



I'm not sure what you thought you were getting promised by Nokia, but most of us at the time of release could read the tea leaves that the N900 probably would have a relatively short lifespan with Maemo 6 (at the time) on the horizon. Many of us knew that there was no guarantee that the N900 would get an OS refresh even before MeeGo and before Nokia changed CEOs and changed plans accordingly.

Yet, I still bought because I felt the phone fit my needs, and it continues to fill those needs quite well. I'm just glad that a lot of the tablet know-how of Maemo won't be lost because of corporate interests. I have hope for MeeGo, not for my current phone, but potentially a phone (or tablet) in the future, and not necessarily by Nokia.

Originally Posted by abill_uk

Read my last post, i think you will realise i DO indeed know what i am talking about !.

Originally Posted by abill_uk

Incidently and although off topic, after over a year of people making Maemo a better place to work with, some of the apps are bloody fantastic and right now you know Maemo is not so bad as long as you take care what you install.

All in all the MeeGo adaption to replace Maemo will have to go some i tell you because i am no way in a hurry to get rid of Maemo thats for sure.

Originally Posted by abill_uk

What i thought i would get and what we all got was a total shambles in my view because the Maemo os was half baked, shockingly half baked, but like many others we listened to the hype about the so called "flagship" the N900 was supposed to be and jumped in before it got proper reviews, my wrong doing there.

Originally Posted by JamesBond@ge

Sometimes I feel like I'm reading posts from 2 or 3 different people, all posting under the abill_uk account.

Originally Posted by JamesBond@ge

Seriously, are you an escapee from a mental institution?

First you say that Meego is vaporware, quoting and posting up a year old article. Then you acknowledge it's existence and in one post mention it's 10 year history which pretty much nullifies the "vaporware" comment.

Next you say Maemo is "half baked", "unfinished" and you're pretty fed up with up.

Now you post this, saying you are "in no way in a hurry to get rid of Maemo"

These posts are inconsistent and defy logic. Are you on a wind up? Does the medication you take change your personality in any way? Sometimes I feel like I'm reading posts from 2 or 3 different people, all posting under the abill_uk account.

Originally Posted by abill_uk

All i am saying is the web portrayed it as vaporware, there is endless info on this term if you google it, here is a few ok.