To be honest, I use the FM feature quite often (car, GF's home stereo, etc) and it even turned out to have some educational value, as my GF was all of a sudden convinced of the importance of correct MP3 tagging, when she saw the song info nicely displayed on her car stereo screen, along with the tag Nokia N900.
I guess it just proofs Gerbicks' point that we all have our own way of using this device, according to our private preferences.
I am no phone expert, but as far as I can tell, the N900 is the most open phone I could possibly have right now. The N9 just doesn't appeal to me much. But truth be told: Before the N900 I have never ever been very enthusiastic about any phone I owned.
The idea of convincing manufacturers to get rid of their old stock by making maemo devices of them sounds intriguing, I must say.
I do find it bizarre that in none of the 4 countries I frequent (SP/NL/GE/UK) the N9 will be available. That does not look as if Nokia is really willing to stand behind Meego.
Damn if they make it a N950 TMO limited edition and ride the bandwagon of hypebeasts and collab with some cool brand of some sort and set a premium price on it and have a 100 unit run or something, I would still try to make a way to get it. Just sayin.
closed source doesn't mean there is no API to interact with these things...
I could go into a technical rant about this, but what you said is basically enough. The code that actually launches the apps is open source. I gave a glimpse for Maemo 5, and I just confirmed that applauncherd has similar hooks for Qt apps.
These Maemo/MeeGo OSes are the_sh*t; serious hacker's delight.
no one will target the true geeks with a mobile because this niche market couldn't be filled with one device nor three completely. The cause of this market "******ity" is the case that the biggest religious wars over HW ( keyb vs keyboardless, capacitive vs resistive, and so on) and Over SW are taking place between the true geeks.
