[zenspunk]

Nokia's CTO, Rich Green, on Meego back in February after Nokia announced the shift to WP7:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISjb9E5A2ls

That is, this will be their one and only Meego phone, and they want to "get feedback [for] inclusion in their [WP7 phones]".

This looks like a great phone and OS, and I would actually buy it if Nokia were going to support it.

But they just don't get it, do they?

[Geee]

Why would they put so much effort in it if they are not planning support for it?

[toyg]

You don't know Nokia's SOP very much, do you ? :)

Their production processes are all about cranking out slightly-different versions of the same hardware/software combinations, as fast as possible, and market them as "new". Post-release upgrades are basically non-existent, even when bugs and problems are huge -- this was made very clear by the N97, but careful observers knew it from well before then. This phone won't have variations, the platform is commercially dead, so they'll just push it out of the door and forget about it.

Add to this that the Maemo/Meego line has historically been seen as "experimental" (i.e. by the time a device shipped, development had long moved on and backward-compatibility had been broken), even more so now that WP7 is the name of the game for Nokia, and you can see how little they'll care for this phone once they have your cash.

[Geee]

Yep, I know how they have been doing things. However, things like this http://www.developer.nokia.com/swipe/ux/ shows that they have done a bit of effort on this one. I don't believe they'll gain anything from cutting the support when they have come this far and actually delivered something which has selling potential in future too.