Thread: The EPIC N9 anticipation thread
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2011-05-20 , 21:42
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#1576
Originally Posted by Frappacino View Post
The only way to hold a corporation to account in the marketplace is not to buy their products.

Continual support of Nokia if you are not happy with its products is just silly.

If you want to support FOSS and Meego then buy Meego phones from other companies - i.e. LG releasing some phones I believe.

Of course if the hardware is good enough for you then just get this phone, but dont expect people to "forget" how we were treated.

And Yes I believe all Nokia bashing is fully justified - their past behavior is indefensible, and as a consumer the only power you have to reprimand them is NOT to buy their products.
First of:

I am VERY happy with my N900 :-D

I am also a "realist" some people here is not! They complain about Nokia and saying Android is SOOO goood. And thats just garbage cause I have seen several people on forums and also in real world that is not positive about how HTC/Samsung/SE is not upgrading to latest Android and so on.

Conclusion: There is NO company that has longterm support for devices. We have to be glad there is a year upgrade of OS. If you want longterm support for a device you have to PAY for the upgrades. Thats how bussines work.

We (including myself) can bashing as much as we want about "open source" but NO company will ever release a fully working open source mobile EVER. Not even Linux on desktop is working without closed components. The closed components like drivers for GFX, Wifi and then software/protocols/codecs like : DRM, Mp3, AAC, Hxxx, skype, adobeflash, all of them may suck hell :-( but still they are needed without them it just halfbacked joke.

And about LG. Give me a break!? There is no company atm that is close to what Nokia has today on the "Meego front"!

It may be true that nXX is not fully Meego compliant. But still it is WAY more close to Meego than what LG will give (what have they contributed to the community so far?) us at the Meego conference. I wouldnt mind if i was wrong but
again I am a realist dont expect that much from LG. As far as I know they have only said they will release some kind of "prototype" (probadly same prototyp as we saw one years ago).

But some people here still thinks they will release a device cmon?

People here have too read the sources instead of reading some rumors from stupid mobilesites who hasn't a clue what they are talking about.
 

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