I was planning to buy a N9 as soon as it comes out but I am afraid if Nokia really partnerships with Microsoft all new nokia phones would have windows. Is it possible that Nokia will leave N9 and stop developing Meego as they did with our Maemo? Meego looks great but I am kinda afraid that Nokia will leave the N9 as they left N900!
Apps support wise, it would be better than N900 although still nowhere near as good as WP7/Android/iOS. I expect N9 to sell at least 5-10x more than the N900. So yeah, you will have more community devs jumping onboard as well.
At the end, I think you should be just thankful that N9 is being released at all. =)
I think it won't be a good idea to buy a N9 as it would be a dead platform. On the bright side I am very thankful to all the Dev's who didn't let our maemo die and kept making applications so we can compete with Iphone's and Andoid and I hope there is a community for N9 to take good care of our device.
Maemo Downloads still serves about 200k downloads per day, so even N900 must've sold in some reasonable amounts.
Nokia always say that they were surprised by the number of N900 sales. I think the number might be pretty big. So far I have met 4 other N900 users, none of which registered at this forum.
I think this is why the N950 will be so hard to get..so that Nokia can not support it and leave alpha apps on it and no one can complain. I think they wanted the N900 to be like the N950..a beta product..but sales got out of hand ^_^.
Still it doesn't make any sense..a lot of money must have been spent to design the hardware, form factor and software for the N950..why limit it only to loans and only 250? Why not release a version with N9's software to the masses? And why release a developer product for a platform they will not support? It just doesn't make any senbse..then again nothing Nokia did these past 3 years and especially this last year made any sense..to me anyway.
A quick look at maemo.org/downloads[1] doesn't support such conclusions for community projects. As for commercial developers, keeping in mind that Nokia actively discouraged Maemo 5 development even after Qt became mainstream on it, I wouldn't expect much until other manufacturers produce MeeGo products. Ones that are not pronounced dead on arrival.
[1]Summary:
770: 253 packages
N8x0: 512 packages
N900: 658 packages
Note that the vast majority of these are Hildon apps, ie not portable to Harmattan
Maemo Downloads still serves about 200k downloads per day, so even N900 must've sold in some reasonable amounts.
Is that counting only downloads via maemo.org/downloads or all repository.maemo.org access? Are those 200K downloads Fremantle-only or total? What is the extras/extras-devel ratio? Are these stats publicly available somewhere?
