Forum: General
2010-10-08, 19:54
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
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Forum: General
2010-10-08, 19:50
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
Re: Jaaksi leaves?
How many times are people going to claim that the N900 was mainly for devels and people who like to live on the edge when they have no answer to the question, where do the ads say that?
It would...
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Forum: General
2010-10-06, 21:28
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
Re: Jaaksi leaves?
...and when the harvest moon coincides with the autumnal equinox it must mean...the MagicCap OS for the N9!!!
I've followed Mr. Jaaksi's blog for a long time, perhaps since the 770. A...
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Forum: General
2010-10-06, 20:51
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
Re: Jaaksi leaves?
Pfff! Anyone with even rudimentary skill in kephalonomancy knows they're returning to GEOS. The time for its triumphant resurrection is at hand.
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Forum: General
2010-10-06, 20:15
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
Re: Jaaksi leaves?
It's the unfortunate state of the internet rumour mill. Anthing that happens anywhere is about the Nokia choice of OS.
A butterfly flaps its wings in Mexico means Nokia is about to switch to...
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Forum: General
2010-10-06, 19:30
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
Re: Jaaksi leaves?
Harmattan is not a platform - it is a release, and SDK-wise it is as much the first in the MeeGo line (through the Nokia Qt SDK) as it is the last in the Maemo one (through the deb based platform...
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Forum: General
2010-10-06, 18:53
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
Re: Jaaksi leaves?
Concerning codenames: "G" was skipped because of "Gregale" (http://wiki.maemo.org/Codenames)
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Forum: General
2010-10-06, 18:22
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
Re: Jaaksi leaves?
Janne Heikkinen is the director of MeeGo product planning at Nokia just like he was the director of Maemo product planning at Nokia before the rename.
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Forum: General
2010-10-06, 08:22
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
Re: Jaaksi leaves?
iOS doesn't come with an adblocker by default, and one must jailbreak to get this functionality. Now, we can argue whether this is mandatory to get proper functionality. I'll speak for myself and say...
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Forum: General
2010-10-06, 08:10
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
Re: Jaaksi leaves?
Dont want "magic" presentaions. That's emarrassing - like watching a home shopping channel.
Don't want "bling" - useless. That's for teenage girls.
Don't wanna be stabbed... but above all: don't...
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Forum: General
2010-10-06, 07:56
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
Re: Jaaksi leaves?
Ovi store debacle aside, its natural for VPs to leave when big boss leaves. Nokia needs to start learning from North American companies, one how to give powerful presentations, two how to add bling...
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Forum: General
2010-10-06, 07:44
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
Re: Jaaksi leaves?
Bear in mind when thinking things like that that Maemo is, at its heart, an enthusiast platform, and enthusiasts like to tinker. That means more installs, and even more reinstalls when someone screws...
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Forum: General
2010-10-06, 07:27
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
Re: Jaaksi leaves?
That is quite an impressive number. Maemo Downloads only serves some 1-1.5 million downloads per week at this point.[/QUOTE]
wait a minute... 17.5 mio downloads a week for a store that serves...
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Forum: General
2010-10-05, 23:04
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
Re: Jaaksi leaves?
Likewise.
I want to be optimistic like Quim (and hope he survives any change yet to come) but it's a struggle. Of course I was briefly involved with the Maemo device program and things didn't...
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Forum: General
2010-10-05, 22:58
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
Re: Jaaksi leaves?
everyone on here judges Ovi services by the sorry state they are on Maemo 5, which is unfair b/c OVI Maps on symbian is awesome, Ovi store is now growing into something big and are now at 2.5 million...
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Forum: General
2010-10-05, 22:44
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
Re: Jaaksi leaves?
I don´t get you? Are you trying to say that to people who are able to customize their device and run same scripts and apps as on their desktop linuxes the maemo is failure?
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Forum: General
2010-10-05, 18:06
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
Re: Jaaksi leaves?
Maybe all 3 of them will go and form a smaller cell phone company, Aikon they'll call it, and show 'em how it's really done? :D
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Forum: General
2010-10-05, 17:33
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
Re: Jaaksi leaves?
The two execs that I didn't want to see leave were Vanjoki and Jaaksi. :o
Oh well, at least we are still left with people like Savander, Mcdowell and Ojanperä, who have consistent track record in...
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Forum: General
2010-10-05, 17:27
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
Re: Jaaksi leaves?
Something that I perceived in Ari's posts in his blog is that he didn't mind for Maemo/MeeGo having "rough corners"; that in fact he liked that.
Considering that MeeGo is supposed to be the...
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Forum: General
2010-10-05, 16:58
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
Re: Jaaksi leaves?
I'm good, thanks! :)
Actually I'm following with a lot of excitement these changes. I had the pleasure to be interviewed by Ari (among others) when I joined Nokia and I owe him a lot. By the time...
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Forum: General
2010-10-05, 14:00
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
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Forum: General
2010-10-05, 11:13
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
Re: Jaaksi leaves?
Quim is fine. And MeeGo is fine. We all will miss Ari, a true pioneer of open source and taking Linux mainstream. We have built the first tablets under him and he was the man that run R&D to bring...
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Forum: General
2010-10-05, 10:57
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
Re: Jaaksi leaves?
Not a good sign for MeeGo. Jaaksi was clearly one of the few people at Nokia who "gets it" - so if he's leaving, what does that say about the current state and future of MeeGo?
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Forum: General
2010-10-05, 10:48
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Replies: 195
Views: 61,810
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Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan
2010-09-28, 12:51
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Replies: 103
Views: 31,800
Re: N9 is comng soon??
The article you cite is rather stupid. First, I doubt that anyone expects that N8 is trying to beat iPhone 4, not even fanboys here are so delusional -- so the author's mother may have had an affair...
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