Sorry, I meant N9 when I said N900 which was earlier. Yes, it was actually released, and I would have been interested in it if it weren't for the fact that they released it right as they cancelled Meego development and switched to Windows. Now there have been several forks of that effort since then, like Sailfish and Tizen, but they haven't actually shipped anything yet, so it's been two years without any real updates.
I agree that it's promising and more hacker friendly than Android. I've been following it for years, and keep thinking "that looks interesting, maybe I'll get one once they've completed their transition to Qt (so I don't start writing GTK apps that will be deprecated soon)" or "maybe I'll get one once they've finished migrating from Maemo to Meego", but every time I do that, there's some new major shift or the project is cancelled or the like.
So, I have some hope for Sailfish, but it's still vaporware as far as actually shipping hardware, and the history of the project and confusing family tree has left me somewhat skeptical, and not willing to spend serious effort on it until it stops being vaporware and someone actually manages to ship a version 2 of the same platform without some complete rewrite of some major component of the platform.
Yes, I was answering the question "I always wondered why Jolla is getting so little love from HN." Until today, it has been vaporware. In fact, it's still vaporware as far as I can see; there isn't a "buy" button, there's a "sign up to be emailed when it's ready", though it looks like they are launching in Finland today and the rest of the world later.
I agree that it's promising and more hacker friendly than Android. I've been following it for years, and keep thinking "that looks interesting, maybe I'll get one once they've completed their transition to Qt (so I don't start writing GTK apps that will be deprecated soon)" or "maybe I'll get one once they've finished migrating from Maemo to Meego", but every time I do that, there's some new major shift or the project is cancelled or the like.
So, I have some hope for Sailfish, but it's still vaporware as far as actually shipping hardware, and the history of the project and confusing family tree has left me somewhat skeptical, and not willing to spend serious effort on it until it stops being vaporware and someone actually manages to ship a version 2 of the same platform without some complete rewrite of some major component of the platform.