Old school N800/N810 owner here. Nokia failed long before the N900, let alone the N9. You had the Symbian business unit veto-ing the release of any Maemo (Meego

Old school N800/N810 owner here. Nokia failed long before the N900, let alone the N9. You had the Symbian business unit veto-ing the release of any Maemo (Meego's name before they tried to align with the other players that had a desktop OS along the same lines.) Every release was incompatible with the last.. for example NIT2006 (N770) was incompatible with NIT2007 (N800, and a bleeding edge port for N770 because som many users were upset the device got dropped) was incompatible with NIT2008 (N800) was incompatible with NIT2008 R2/Diablo (N800, N810) - this lost a massive amount of packaged software, and alienated the community. I mean, the N770 had many hundreds of packages. The N800 had a few hundred (like, half, maybe less), the N810 was getting to the point were Nokia's own repo was looking bare, and third parties were the only real support. Then the next OS version (Harmatten?) was for the N900 only. Then they were moving to Qt, even though we were promised that GTK+ would always be the UI tool kit. Nokia management bungled everything. Made supporting the device a horrible experience, and people left. I'm happy that you liked the N9, but the writing was on the wall maybe 2 or 3 years prior to that, around when the N900 appeared.