I had the predecessor (N900) at the time, but I don't think the OSS community would have helped. Lots of effort was directed to typical 'hacker' uses of the pho

I had the predecessor (N900) at the time, but I don't think the OSS community would have helped. Lots of effort was directed to typical 'hacker' uses of the phone, not stuff your regular 'end user' would need. It was fun to see a full port of OpenOffice on the thing but it needed a full minute to start and was useless on the small screen. Also, most end users don't know what to do with the terminal ;) While I think they improved a lot with the N9 Nokia was already severely outclassed by Apple, followed by Google by then. Directly stating the N9 line was unsupported at release time was the nail in the coffin.