I personally don't see Maemo becoming Nokia's go-to guy for saving the company. Linux isn't going to save Nokia; quality, mainstream products will.

You mean Meego now. But I don't think so either. If anything it might be the death of Nokia if anyone who picks up Meego (say for a wild example, HTC) will put out a better Meego product.

Now QT compatibility on the other hand might. As most developers are on the iPhone and increasingly joining Android. Nokia needs a platform with a userbase that can draw developers for their Symbian3 platform. QT compatibility across Meego and Symbian3 devices would provide that userbase.

You know that there are firmware fixes coming, that should be enough.
I don't know when people suddenly started expecting companies to hold their hand on every step of the development process. I know that the N900 is running a linux OS so it technically should be more ''open'' when it comes to company-customer relations, but people have been downright spoiled by Nokia. Think about it, which other company is as connected as Nokia is?
Apple? Hell no.
HTC does a good job at making high end phones but they don't communicate with their community at all. They only announce that firmware updates are in development as well, they don't give a date untill it is released (since carriers have to distribute it in some cases)
Google? They didn't even have a forum at release and their updates have barely fixed the issues the N1 has.
Samsung is notorious for releasing a new phone instead of updating it's old ones.
I could go on, Motorola had a good idea with the droid but followed it up with some big flops, Palm couldn't make a commercial worth a damn (although their CEO is very sociable)
Simply put, Nokia does a damn fine job and is at worst on par with other companies, at best the most friendly one there is!
As for symbian.. it dominates the mid range market, in my opinion S^3 is good enough to compete in the high end range (I don't care so much about UI, plus by making it one tap only it's pretty much a winner for me), but of course the US doesn't agree. Nokia is slowing down it's high end production and trying to make one good device instead of several flops (N96, N97,..) but untill then, they have a ton of cheap handsets that are going to keep it afloat for a very long time.

My thoughts: http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com...eak-for-nokia/

Well Nokia whole future hangs on Qt and that's just not the high end so i'm sure Nokia will welcome all who want to join in. Nokia will anyways use Harmattan so that's a big thing there compared to other manufacturers. Plus Nokia builds all the services behind Qt(S^3, S^4 and MeeGo) that will not happen with others.
One reason why Nokia dominated the Symbian area while Samsung already had best hw with innov8, but never sold anything like Nokias Symbian phones.

Like I said earlier in this thread..."MeeGo will not save Nokia. But MeeGo + Symbian + Qt will save Nokia. MeeGo will save Nokia's reputation." (in the high end). That and fixing the mess that is Ovi.

All of the issues that everyone is talking about has to do with management of the brand. Just admit it. They have made more than a few mistakes. What other company releases multiple phones then admits to mismanagement of their latest high end phones? Nokia is, and will always be, a victim of their success and I think the discontent expressed is due to their previous successes. They made RELIABLE good phones when they weren't readily available in the various configurations that made Nokia look like an innovative company. They are losing that mindshare and I think that is why everyone is so vocal. It seems as if they are losing it.

But why shouldn't people be mad? The HTC EVO 4g is coming out and people are wondering where is the Nokia that made a phone that couldn't be matched, spec wise, for years by competitors. I wont even go into the reliability these phones had. You could drop them in hot sauce, dry it in the microwave, and listen to it in the shower. That is what I'm looking for

Err.. I imagine the HTC EVO 4G will be out-dated within months after its launch. That's just the progress at which smartphones (especially Android) are coming out at.

As far as I'm concerned, it's not as much the hardware that's the problem, it's the operating system and the software on it. The N900 is great for my needs now. But in 3-4 years, I won't need the abilities of a mobile computer I(with the ability to run things like openoffice) and I will be looking for a platform that offers things like Android is beginning to offer. Whether Meego will be a considerable alternative at that point, who knows.

I'm willing to put money on this. When the EVO 4G comes out, Android 2.2 will be out. And the EVO 4G won't get it.

Quote me

I can guarantee you that one way or another the evo will get android 2.2

If it's not official from htc, then it'll be from xda.

I'll go as far to say the xda build will be better than the htc version.