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fms 2009-10-03 12:08
Re: Nokia hires ex-Apple executive
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by benny1967 (Post 338700)
either way, we lose.
See? You are starting to see the light of truth :)

legendemeritus 2009-10-03 13:18
Re: Nokia hires ex-Apple executive
 
i have one question for those who see this as a bad move.

would you rather swirl or pinch?

benny1967 2009-10-03 13:21
Re: Nokia hires ex-Apple executive
 
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Originally Posted by legendemeritus (Post 338731)
would you rather swirl or pinch?
neither. give me a hardware button for zooming in and out - oh! we already have that. next question, please.

legendemeritus 2009-10-03 13:25
Re: Nokia hires ex-Apple executive
 
how long have you been stuck in the 80s?

benny1967 2009-10-03 13:29
Re: Nokia hires ex-Apple executive
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by legendemeritus (Post 338735)
how long have you been stuck in the 60s?
2½ years.

next question, please.

legendemeritus 2009-10-03 13:31
Re: Nokia hires ex-Apple executive
 
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Originally Posted by benny1967 (Post 338739)
2½ years.

next question, please.
sorry i changed the question slightly

nilchak 2009-10-03 13:33
Re: Nokia hires ex-Apple executive
 
Wow, the way everybody's going about how an Apple executive will taint Maemo as a whole makes me incredulous.

Do you think a corporaton and its directions and strategies are so neboulous that one excutive willc hange it all in a flash ?

Secondly what gives that an Apple excutive will make Maemo more Apple like ? Nokia must have selected him based on certain merits and qualifications - and not necesarily to make Maemo more Apple like ? Apart from changing the way Maemo's openness is , there may be othere ways he can bring some positives - like in the Marketing dept and how to position the N900 to consumers .. etc etc.

I think all this talk about "oh, now we are tainted" is just reflexive Apple hatred creeping in. At least as a eye opener look at how Apple executives did manage to change Palm for the positive (granted Palm never set out to do an open OS).

benny1967 2009-10-03 13:34
Re: Nokia hires ex-Apple executive
 
10 years then. next question, please.

nilchak 2009-10-03 13:38
Re: Nokia hires ex-Apple executive
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by benny1967 (Post 338700)
the only good thing we should hope for is that we can keep this open platform the way it is - because enough people will like it the way we do. if they don't, there's no way to save it.
Benny, you do realise that if Nokia doesnt make a profit from the device and, even then the n900 is dead.

This is the whole balancing act of open source being used by corporations - to make a profit from an open platform by selling something on top of it (the open platform). Its not some charity and open source ideologue that Nokia is out to prove to the world. It doesn't work that way.

As must as we cherish open source and open source ideology, it has to earn the bread at the end of the day - and the two need not be mutually exclusive either.

benny1967 2009-10-03 13:46
Re: Nokia hires ex-Apple executive
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by nilchak (Post 338743)
look at how Apple executives did manage to change Palm for the positive
you mean like... - what? a broken distribution system for 3rd party apps? (there's a thread about it somewhere here)
no distribution at all outside america?
increasing losses?

oh...


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