Nokia N900

August 28, 2009 General 1 Comment

I feel like the only person who isn’t so excited by the N900. It looks like a beautiful device, and it’s built on the current Maemo platform that I’ve always liked and there’s so much to be excited about. But I’m not.

I feel like we’ve been wanting Nokia to make this device since Maemo was first released. They released an Internet tablet, and I figured maybe it’s just to get the platform out the door. Fine. But then they release another Internet tablet, and then another. They were cool devices, but I had no use for them. I just never wanted to carry around yet another device.

So now they release what I’ve been wanting for all this time, but on a platform that they’ve already declared is a dead end. Am I missing something, or does this feel very pointless?

I’m not trying to start any discussion about the toolkits, that’s not at all the point. It’s just confusing that they would never make a useful device that anyone really cares about until after they’ve declared an end to the platform. Now that they have a device I want to buy, there’s no point in buying it since it appears to has no future.