Thread: Why I am getting a Nokia N9 (are you?)
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ericsson is offline ericsson
2011-06-24 , 21:42
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Originally Posted by shallimus View Post
Huh? Are you trolling, or did you genuinely miss his point by such a long way?

You seem to forget where the money comes from for all these companies (note: not charities). The money comes from us - the consumers. We pay the wages. We pay the R&D costs. We pay for the shareholders' dividends. We are the market force.

It is only because we the consumer enable the closed/money-grubbing model espoused by so many companies that it continues to work for them.

Given a choice between paying for relative freedom on the device you own and paying to permit a corporation to store a closed, ad-driven, non-customisable, license-ridden, DRM-infested marketing device in your pocket, are you seriously saying you'd prefer the latter?

Your choice... but don't tell us to dumb it down just because you are unable/unwilling to conceive of a world where openness could equate with commercial success and user satisfaction.
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Ok then, read more carefully. The Answer is called Symbian. Symbian has everything you want: Full control of files, USB otg, HDMI out (on some), every file transfer you can think (bt, IR, morse, wifi, sms, mms, rs232 and so on) of to/from any device you can think of (except iOS and WP).

But I guess that was wrong answer, it was not Linux

Seriously, I know what you mean, and I didn't really read it the first time, I just assumed it was another of those Eflop ate MeeGo for breakfast - whine. But Symbian really is an answer to your question, maybe not all but many. Even Bada may answer some of your questions. There is so much more than Linux, and the N9 is NOT the only device, even though Linux/N900/N9 certainly is the best combo.

Still 99% of the users don't care. They have no urge to transfer files, other than music and pics, and certainly don't care about SDKs and programming tools and don't want to bother about file formats. Technology evolves, and it evolves to please the masses. If it didn't we would still have to make our own grease to lubricate drive shafts on our cars every day, mix our own gasoline and change light bulbs every other week, we would have to have our own vegetable garden and a couple of cows. That's just the way it is, and it will not change anytime soon. Having to make choices regarding details of the technology - any technology - is NOT what 99% of users consider freedom, it is the opposite.