Originally Posted by Milhouse

It seems quite unrealistic that the three major operators in Australia, plus operators in Norway, Sweden, China etc. would take on the N9 if Nokia were only producing 92,000 units.

I just can't see the operators wasting their time (and marketing budgets and retail space) on the N9 if this production number is true, so I highly doubt it is.

Eldar has been throwing this number around since the N950 got canned, and in terms of the N950 it's a much more believable tale.

Originally Posted by abill_uk

Bernard what is your opinion of the future of meego and the N9 especially concerning Nokia and the support it may or may not get.

Originally Posted by Bernard

When I buy the device, I will do so for what it can do at that moment in time, and not for any future promised updates.
In the end I think I will end-up with a N9, as I don't feel other devices will provide the features I want.

Originally Posted by Bernard

For me the support that Nokia provided in the past was fine for the products I own/owned (all the Maemo devices and a number of Symbian phones). In my opinion, better than the support Samsung or HTC provide.
I trust that Nokia will support the N9 in a similar way, so that will be fine for me also. When I buy the device, I will do so for what it can do at that moment in time, and not for any future promised updates.
When it is released, I will probably buy it if it isn't too buggy, the basic applications aren't too dumbed down, and the device isn't too expensive.
Otherwise I will wait a bit longer, as my N900 devices work fine, and I don't "need" a new device. Prices will come down, alternative applications will get released, and bugs will be fixed.
In the end I think I will end-up with a N9, as I don't feel other devices will provide the features I want.

I think the N9 will be similarly supported as the N900, and I think the N9 will be the only MeeGo device that a relatively large group of people will use. I don't believe the MeeGo builds on the MeeGo website will ever be used on any large scale, simply because I don't think it will ever get finished to an end-user state, by anyone.

So far for my two cents
I have been known to be wrong in the past (on many occasions actually).

Originally Posted by abill_uk

Your proving all the reports that said this in the beggining but people just did not take any notice because of blinded vision.

NOW reality is starting to show its ugly face on this thread !.

Originally Posted by Bernard

MeeGo Harmattan was developed internally at Nokia (based on Debian). The MeeGo development on the MeeGo website really is a different beast.
There is overlap in components used, but the reality is that you can't say anything about how MeeGo Harmattan development was progressing based on the information on the MeeGo site.
I suspect that most of the development time (and problems) of MeeGo Harmattan were because of the totally new user interface and application set, not because of the core operation system.

The MeeGo Nokia/intel collaboration was intended to be a future update of the core operation system, providing Nokia the ability to use its modern (proprietary) harmattan UX, and a modern Core OS, without the need to develop everything internally.
But as it turns out building your own linux distribution from scratch isn't a very easy task, as was the development of SDK, UX and application set.