Re: Internet Tablet School closing down
 

Thanks for ITS, I found it extremely helpful at times. Like bunanson said, we're sure going miss ya.

Re: Internet Tablet School closing down :-(
 

I feel your pain, ITS, ITT and, Thaughtfix has had a great impact on my knowledge about linux in general. Before i had my N800, i had verry little knowledge about the platform and could berly use/understand the llinux-based platform in general. Thanks to the community, i am now am allmost an expert with linux and am currently writing software for Stskeep's Deblet progect and am also a maintainer for the gnome side of the progect.

It is, in my opinion, a verry sad los that ITS is going to be discontinued. Especially when it has helped a lot of people get started with maemo...

Re: Internet Tablet School closing down
 

Wouldn't have bought the NIT if some questions were not answered from the school tutorials very sad but well life continues and good luck for the next step.

Re: Internet Tablet School closing down
 

I haven't used the Tablet school (I started with the 770 before it existed), but it is nice that it existed. A big thanks to you.

And about the controversy, I opened a thread here.:rolleyes:

Re: Internet Tablet School closing down
 

Me too. Very sad news. But my complain is not to be able to access my home bank. Iphone do it. .

Re: Internet Tablet School closing down
 

Krisse,

The timing of your post is quite ironic, as I just visited your site yesterday and this morning!

Don't understand why you think that your site is not really worthy of updating, as evidenced by many that have posted here and others that have used your site...

So, wonder if it's really that you have moved on for some personal reason...but maybe you'll reconsider after reading this thread...

Anyway, just want to say a big 'T H A N K S' for your site and as others have suggested, please keep it online and if possible let others update it.

Thanks.

Re: Internet Tablet School closing down
 

Perhaps instead of closing someone else wants to continue the project using the current framework & name?

Re: Internet Tablet School closing down
 

Krisse, Thanks for the great things you accomplished, not only in the Tablet School, but also in responding in ITT.

However I do not share your view that the Internet tablet has no future.

The Internet tablet is no phone and should stay away from that area. No phone has the media and browser functionality of the Tablet. Neither Apple’s Iphone or the Samsung OMNIA. Phones will very understandable stick to their own niche which is to communicate.

In my view there is a great future in the Walk Around Internet Tablet. A small device for multi media, written messages and browsing. Perhaps combined with Gaming, Navigating and PIM (if you need it). It’s your library, your mail / messenger, your gaming device, your search engine, your music and your hand-held TV.

I think Apple has recognized the Walk Around Internet and will expend their IPod Touch (Player) to become a tablet (Player). Both IPod and some navigators (PDAs) are close. Wi-Fi or 3G is not an issue. Tablets will have both. And will be maybe a little bit larger with a better (indoor) screen and better speakers than a N8XX. But still fit in a pocket. A small gadget which you use in a chair or on a table, terrace but which you can move with you to another room or the garden or a hotel, train, airport or beach. It's your personal walk around internet device.

And people will have another very small gadget for communicating: a phone. Of course there will be some crossovers (photo’s ?), but I do not believe in putting all functionality in 1 device. Combining always means compromising. And a phone will be small, very small and light. It's your voice communicator.

A phone can be ignored, or used along side doing something else. But it is required to pay attention to a Tablet: reading, watching, listening. It's a different.

Nokia will not ignore the IPod Touch or Google’s Android, which will Walk Around as well, I am sure. It's a big market.

But can Maemo compete with Android ????? That’s the problem. Unless Nokia takes full control over Maemo it’s a dead end, I am afraid. Reason: (Quality) Control and Maintenance. (To put it simply: As an N800 user you can only depend fully on the Nokia Apps and the Nokia repositories).

Anyway, You were Premium Quality and I am sure we'll see more of you. The School was great and absolutely necessary ! It will come back, one way or another.


Thanks and nothing Bye Bye: See you !!

Abel.

Re: Internet Tablet School closing down
 

Thanks for the work you have done on Internet Tablet School! It was a good reference for people new to the IT.

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Thank you for putting those tutorials out there. As a new user they really helped me get up and running in a short amount of time without a lot of searching and (redundant) question-posting.

I personally don't want a smart phone because to me the extra data charges aren't worth a little extra convenience. I want a pocket-size wi-fi computer that I can carry with me *when I need it* which is mainly when traveling. For that, the N810 is nearly perfect.