i am still, despite everything, holding out hopes for a maemo/meego resurrection, simply because i have never before or since found another mobile platform as p

i am still, despite everything, holding out hopes for a maemo/meego resurrection, simply because i have never before or since found another mobile platform as pleasurable to develop for. i kept feeling that meego was (like linux-on-the-desktop, perhaps) perpetually on the brink of a tipping point that would suddenly surprise everyone with an accelerating cascade of apps gushing forth. sadly, the experience of using it (on my n900) was plagued by the same problems that linux had in the early days, where the hardware and software randomly decided not to get on with each other (specifically, in my case, phone calls that would drop before the phone app swapped in, and a gps that took anywhere from 20 minutes to never to get a lock). i cannot help but think that if only nokia had thrown their full weight behind it, the second or third generation phone would have been truly stunning.