They have no real influence, when it comes down to it. It's all about the SoC manufacturer, and they're selling to way more than just Nokia. Having open source drivers isn't a huge selling point from core designer to SoC designer, so they revert to their default "unprofitable trade secret" stance.

Hell you'd think Intel could pull some strings, but I suspect that the people who negotiated for it didn't see it as a valuable point either (that or Imagination fiercely protects their driver source, which is likely.)

Core bits of Maemo being closed is never excusable since Nokia has always had control over it. I suspect it's the Marketers and Legal people behind the scenes screwing things up. You know, "brand protection" ****.

This is also why I'm only interested in the community release of MeeGo and not whatever things Nokia is whipping up, since that will eventually have the same issues as Maemo is having now.

I'd love to have a 100% open source stack, but the industry still sees platforms like this as something special and different from the standard PC, so we get crap like Flash requiring the hardware vendor to purchase a license (I suspect it's the same for Skype.)

So, who prepares the question list? and should we ask him by our own account or create one for tmo?
i have following questions:
1. How much he laugh when he heard about "N900 won't get MeeGo"?
2. What does he think about Chuck Norris?
3. When will get free porn on Ovi?

I'd still like to see the questions I'd pointed out... asked. It would be good to have some words from Nokia to back up their intent or their helplessness either way.

hey guys.

Remember that we have to use twitter to ask questions. As you might know Twitter has a character limit of 140 characters. So be careful to keep questions/queriessimple and effective.

Best thing to do is use NotePad or something to bullet-point the questions and ensure it is within the limit. This way you can basically Copy and Paste the questions... We should ask the same questions over and over again, because that will make it more effective and the chances of these questions being picked to be answered will be greater.

The guy owes us serious explanations

Oh man... I wonder if Niklas has any idea what sort of door he's opened...

Poor guy indeed...

Sometimes I seriously consider buying another phone just to get the
heck out of this community.

There are some serious sociopaths around here...

So what are you waiting for? Have you posted the questions yet?

Car kit support all nokia high end phone fails miserably at this

PBAP IrMc SyncML and all other bits to connect to any car kit available, they are promoting stuff like Terminal mode on VW cars and i cant have stupid phone book in my damn audi vw or seat which my nokia 6265 a low mid end phone did amazingly

Also they need to support this in Symbian as my N82 and N95 failed as my N900 (all my high end must have phones from nokia are crap with BT)

OVI STORE, real integration with the phone not a stupid web site

OVI MAPS, for gods sake how a 550$ phone doesnt have decent voice navigation specially when NOKIA is the owner of NAVTEQ

And meego when are we going to know who are meego partners

lol at anyone expecting any answer, that's slightly interesting regarding the N900, out of that guy.


And then we die.

were is my robot with rocket launchers?! where!!!