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Nokia 770 - The Three Step Plan

Quote:

In Dr. Ari Jaaksi`s [LINK:
http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/2005/12/release-early-and-party.html] latest
blog entry, he boldy lays out Nokia`s plan for the Nokia 770:

"Now, how do you develop a product such a 770? How do you work in open
source in general? You

1) release early,
2) get feedback – including code contributions,
3) improve your product – all very openly, and letting others to
participate

So we have #1 already. Now we are doing #2., and with the maintenance and
next major software upgrade releases we’ll do #3. This all sounds
very familiar to us who are into creating software with open source. But
it is also a pretty neat idea in a context of and entire product...

Read the full article.

Sorry to be a party pooper but isn't this blog an extraordinary admission about a retail product. I would accept all this if we early adopters were being paid to test the 770 or at least had received a discount but we have paid the full retail price for what really is by this admission a prototype!

It is old joke: "People at OpenSource release soon and lets the users to catch the bugs. But here we at Microsoft... oops, what a coincidence, isn't it?"