I'm not quite sure why the "average user" is so concerned about MeeGo appearing on the n900.

Maemo 5 & the n900 is still a very capable combination.
New applications seem to be appearing daily on the "Download" page here at maemo.org.

As a software developer myself I will certainly still write software for the n900 and maemo. There is still plenty of life in it yet.

Personally I expect the absolute minimum time I'll have my n900 will be 2 years. I imagine many owners will feel the same - especially for the price (£500).

I've owned the n900 since December 2009 and from day one have found it to be extremely useful. I use it on a daily basis and installed a collection of applications that are invaluable to me.

I don't see how the non-existence of MeeGo is holding back the n900. The "development" version of MeeGo probably will not be usable for a typical user for many months yet. Nokia won't support it which means it won't have Nokia-written applications or branding installed but there is the freedom to install community-written applications instead.

So no "official" Nokia developed version of MeeGo but a community-developed version instead.

There are hundreds of Linux-based distributions available for PCs that are a mixture of commercial and community developed versions.
The same thing hopefully will be the same for MeeGo - some people may even fork MeeGo and develop alternate versions of it.


When the 1.2 firmware update is finally released, the QT libraries will make the transition between maemo and a MeeGo device much easier.

The worse case scenario is the n900 never gets a "stable" release of MeeGo.

So what?

It does not mean it stops becoming a useful device.

I have a lot of faith in the community and suspect MeeGo will appear on the n900 - Nokia's blessing or permission is not needed. If Nokia wants to offiicially support it then great even better.

For me the only concern are the proprietory drivers that are present on the n900. If they remain closed and no open source version is ever available then the n900 will never receive a fully-functional version of MeeGo - unless Nokia either release the full specs of the hardware or release the source code of the drivers or make linkable firmware binary blobs.