[nextos]

I think that's a bit unfair. Meego was scheduled to use Wayland instead of X. While I don't remember if it did, Sailfish definitely does. Maemo was also quite of an early adopter of Pulseaudio. Thus, the whole Maemo-Meego-Sailfish saga has been one of the pioneers in changing the stack SysV/X/ALSA -> Systemd/Wayland/Pulseaudio and friends.

The N9 was a really polished product. Offline navigation was incredibly good. I still use it. With a bit of care it could have been a nice product.

[raverbashing]

Why is it unfair?

If they had focused on shipping and improving the user/developer experience instead of rewriting their product every year or so (and while I didn't see the N9 I did see the N800/N900 and the experience wasn't great - also because of hw issues) we wouldn't be having this conversation

N9 was released in September 2011 that's 5 years after the first iPhone and Android had an ok product by then.

Had them focused on improving what they had on the N800 (released January 2007) instead of what they did they would have owned the market. Instead they let Android surpass them. They had everything to succeed and THEY BLEW IT

[u801e]

> Offline navigation was incredibly good.

It definitely still is. It's unfortunate that map updates are no longer available.