N900 can be used by the average user. I've seen couple of girls in a shop in my city using N900s. My ex, she completely disregarded the thought of an iphone when she saw my N900.

Anyhow, bad move from Nokia, they just became HTC, purely hardware manufacturer. They don't differ anymore, from a leader and innovator, they just became a slave.

I would like to add to my post above that I was nauseated by the "step ___ of 5" rhetoric for years, because it was just pie in the sky putting off the responsibility for a good product into the utopian future. So now the rainbow ends at a dump. Not really all that surprising, but sad.

Can't we just port Maemo5 to MeeGo or WP7 since it's open and persumably Nokia hardware? Running Android apps too soon, I might be happy with that.

I think its as simple as that:

Nokia was cornered by it's own Stockholders for loosing huge market share firstly to iphone and then to android, MS came along waving big cash at their greedy wrinkled faces, got the partnership, NOKIA stockholders flew happily back to their mansions to count the cash, we are left with WM7 a crap OS...

And now it's confirmed that Qt will have no place.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/11/n...s-phone-devel/

First of all , I hate Microsoft. I love Linux.

But in fact, if Nokia just say they will release WP7 togather with MeeGo. I am absolutely fine with it. I still can get my new Linux phone. But now... they delayed the launch of MeeGo , but stopped the support of Maemo..

I am lost , I don't know what I could do for their platform... At least I won't write software for WP7 unless I got high paid.

Step 4 or 5 was n900 & maemo.

Step 5 of 5 was spectaculat f***-up of potential successful device & OS, install a member of the "IT" mafia and begin your assimilation into the Microsoft-Borg collective.

Thus Steps 1 to 5 are now completed.

Don't believe the corporate crap.

MeeGo and WP7 are polar opposites and cannot not in any way "co-exist".

If a Meego device is ever released it won't be supported in the normal sense. They may release it to recoup development costs but after that I think the meego platform will be canned.

Nokia's software development resources are limited and Nokia have decided to concentrate on Windows Phone development.

Meego as a commercial platform is dead. It's only state of existence will be a community project.

That's what I thought too (N900: For techy types). But then one day I saw a teenager girl using a N900 on the bus.. she seemed utterly comfortable with doing whatever it was that she did. Keyboard out, keyboard in (the Mercedes-door sound was what alerted me to the fact that she was using an N900). Maybe she used that Facebook application I've never bothered with myself? Or messaging? I don't know.

But it turned around my thinking about the N900. When my old mother complained that it was impossible to use her new Samsung phone to read or write messages (too tiny fonts, too difficult to figure out) I handed her my N900. She found it utterly simple. Large readable icons, messages easy to read (they show up on the front before you even start the sms application), easy to phone.. perfect.

I never had hopes for meego anyways, while iphone and android are doing wonders, meego is still trying to hatch, i mean seriously with a competition like that, you don't keep delaying things. Nokia screwed up themselves and nobody else is to blame. Now MS will dictate their terms and meego will just be another maemo IMO. Of course some potential in the tablet space but with ipad and honeycomb, that is hardly going to materialize.