Maemo Downloads still serves about 200k downloads per day, so even N900 must've sold in some reasonable amounts.
Until that's separated into unique downloads, I'd tend to not believe that number to be a true metric of how many sales for the N900 there really were.
I know my N810 and N900 were re-imaged a TON, so there were definitely a ton of repeated downloads by me - I think I had redone my N810 some 17 times before selling it. More for my 770.
Come on guys everyone on here is talking like MeeGo will be dead in the water if Nokia does not support it.
For one Nokia is not the only company investing in MeeGo far from it just google MeeGo development.The far east China ect are gonna pick this baby up big time towards the end of the year into next.
Secondly Nokia is giving away development devices for developers partly to show how easily Symbian Qt apps can be ported. Its practically no work at all. In the other N9 is here thread there is a good link to an interview with a Nokia product manager. http://translate.google.de/translate...n9-hero-device
He said "We also ensure that the entire Austrian applications we have in store for Symbian, even at the start of MeeGo will be ready"
Quim Gil has also stated that parts of the UI will live on into future devices, that to me says Qt development all the way.
WP will start to roll at the same time and maybe it will be a success but I think after the N9 the stage will change and it won't be long before another big phone maker picks up MeeGo. Since alot of it is open I would say its highly likely that its going on already.
I wouldn't wager my buy on the OS's life spand. My time with the N900 was great and the fact that Nokia chose to discontinue maemo didn't affect my every day use at all. If i bought the N9 it wouldn't matter whether Nokia continued meego or not cause it wont really chance the every day use. Yes i would miss some updates, but most of them would be minor bug fixes. The phones that comes out are finished products. I think people's expectations are running wild in regards to updates and companies responsibilities to maintain and send out updates/upgrades to smartphones.
Why this demand for further development and new fetures for your given phone. If one don't like the product as it stands alone, when shipped, one shouldn't buy it.
I've had a htc and now a sony ericsson since the N900 and they have both send out a few updates within the short time I've had them, mostly bug fixes and some minor tweaks, nothing big really that i couldn't have lived without and to be frank the tweaks were only eye candy. My phones didn't run smoother nor were they more responsive. I can't really tell the difference only some numbers in FW that have changed.
I would buy the N9 if i wasn't such a big mobile gamer and hope other companies will pick up meego cause i think the whole interface and multitasking is just brilliant and intuitive.
Nokia's Meego division has funding until June 2012 at least, it is not certain what they'll do after that. I expect they'll be able to get an update or two out before then, but I wouldn't count on anything after then. That doesn't mean Nokia will stop working on Meego by that date, it just hasn't been decided yet.
IMO, you should buy the N9 for what it is when it is released, then any updates/improvements are a bonus, I think it is a bad idea to buy something hoping its flaw will be fixed with a future update.
Nokia's Meego division has funding until June 2012 at least, it is not certain what they'll do after that. I expect they'll be able to get an update or two out before then, but I wouldn't count on anything after then. That doesn't mean Nokia will stop working on Meego by that date, it just hasn't been decided yet.
IMO, you should buy the N9 for what it is when it is released, then any updates/improvements are a bonus, I think it is a bad idea to buy something hoping its flaw will be fixed with a future update.
Like some of the people who keep hoping that the rumored and yet unspoken "promise" of dalvik will mean they can run Android apps on the N9?
despite all the "platform is dead" misery that's being circulated, don't forget that Nokia have a legal obligation (in the countries where it is officially released) to provide a minimum period of support for bug fixes and stability patching. this is usually in the vicinity of 2 years.
in all honesty, the industry is moving at such a rapid rate (technology development and software/OS release cycle) that the N9 will be redundant by that time anyway.
well i'm gonna buy one no matter what danramos and gerbick say ! all they say now n days is just praise android.
Correction. I praise what works best for me. And I don't praise Android really. I do praise continued support and development options that support my livelihood.
Buy what you want man. I've never said don't buy it. If you look early enough, before Elop pulled that WP7 on the same looking piece of hardware as the N9, I was wanting to buy one.
And sadly, I've been praising WP7 via Twitter. Odd? Yes. I actually feel ashamed.
Come on guys everyone on here is talking like MeeGo will be dead in the water if Nokia does not support it.
For one Nokia is not the only company investing in MeeGo far from it just google MeeGo development.The far east China ect are gonna pick this baby up big time towards the end of the year into next.
Secondly Nokia is giving away development devices for developers partly to show how easily Symbian Qt apps can be ported. Its practically no work at all. In the other N9 is here thread there is a good link to an interview with a Nokia product manager. http://translate.google.de/translate...n9-hero-device
He said "We also ensure that the entire Austrian applications we have in store for Symbian, even at the start of MeeGo will be ready"
Quim Gil has also stated that parts of the UI will live on into future devices, that to me says Qt development all the way.
WP will start to roll at the same time and maybe it will be a success but I think after the N9 the stage will change and it won't be long before another big phone maker picks up MeeGo. Since alot of it is open I would say its highly likely that its going on already.
I don't think anybody here said meego would be dead. But Nokia n9 would be... Let's face it without it's publishers support it's hopeless. If you were a businessman would you tend to invest a mobile project for a platform running only 1 handset? Yeah intel maybe still supporting meego but that is not harmattan. And probably not arm version also.
And also yeah n900 may have gotten alot of compatibility but hey
Maemo = "the" Debian
well i'm gonna buy one no matter what danramos and gerbick say ! all they say now n days is just praise android.
Good for you!
It's your money after all, but don't be so hard on them for being realistic about future of maemo. There are many here with bad experience (support, maintenance, durability , end-of-life, etc), even before the maemo products had become a target of their own CEO.
I myself would consider buying it if the price tag does not go above 300-400e. Anything higher than that is too much risk. In either case paying as high as 700e for a cell phone is a madness.
