I own an N900 and it's IN MY OPINION better than other major OS currently avaiable because it's powerful and respct the customer choice.
On the other hand I understand most of people just want some fancy phone can do lots of things even if not everything useful, or people like who buys smartphone because it's nice but can't do anything more than a call with it.
Maemo/Meego IN MY OPINION can do lots of things but only if you can understand that.
By the way I'm here just to tell Nokia that I'm going to support them as long as they will continue developing open-source platforms or at least user respectful OS (root privileges by default) otherwise what makes difference between Nokia and others brand. The hardware you may say, not enought for me anyway until I can't do what I want!
I think Elop is right. They will bring the sinking ship back, at the cost of loyal customers, which will be more than made up for by the troves of people who don't even know Nokia currently exists.
Agreed, with one exception. If they flee they are not loyal customers, now are they?
Loyalty isn't about "I looked around, chose the best". That's shopping. Loyalty is buying Nokia even through hard times because you like the logo, the design and the unique finesse Nokia puts on their phones.
IMO, those are gone. They have no unique features any more, since design is standardised into slabs and software is OS based (and the ones original from Nokia suc), hardware is made by TI and Intel, case is stamped by some Chinese somewhere.
The perfume that surrounded Nokia a few years ago, the faint aroma of just the right mix of power and beauty is gone. Will I buy a Nokia from now on? Don't know, they make good hardware and IF they start innovating design and pushing hardware I will. I bought Firmware, Symbian, S3, S4 and Maemo. So they go WP. Point?
Just because all my phones have been Nokias means nothing. If it sinks, I jump. The definition of loyal means no ship jumping. So, you can't get rid of loyals. If you do they aren't loyal, now are they?
Nokia is pushing away geeks that were attracted to the smell of free software and X terminal. This is the NXXX line, not Nokia. Nokia is way, way bigger and it makes phones, 99 percent of their output are phones. Not Internet Tablets, not Linux boxes.
