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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
Here's the thing.. whenever people said, 'this SUCKS as a phone', the response was always, 'IT'S A COMPUTER FIRST!' The idea being to distance the device from being a handset phone device and representing more of a desktop computer experience in a handset form factor.

Now you're possibly arguing that it's not a computer and it's just another ME TOO handset form factor? Ponderous, lad. That leads down roads I prefer not to go down. Meanwhile, the INTERNET TABLET form factor that Nokia nearly had in its grasp with the "desktop computing experience" arguments in a portable device are being adopted by everyone else as their phone OS's slowly evolve into more and more functional "desktop computing experience" devices (i.e. Atrix, Transformer, Icona, etc.). I would argue that Nokia WAS heading the way of tablets, but then got caught up in the iPhone/Android ME TOO wars instead of being the leader of the INTERNET TABLETS that they had rightfully forged ahead on long before the others were going there. It's a shame and a wasted opportunity.
Well I can't speak for all the other peopl's opinions whan asked "What is the n900" can I ?

Originally Posted by danramos View Post
Now you're possibly arguing that it's not a computer and it's just another ME TOO handset form factor? .
No I am not arguing that - you just replied to my post which said "dont conflate comuting with desktop" and here you go making that stawman argument.

Let me say this in B/W. It is a computer - it aint a desktop.

See there you provided me with a nice mental imagery to compare ...

See the blue big rotary phone in your orig. post ? Now what similarities do you see with a mobile phone of today (say an iPhone) ?
Apart from the fact that both rings whan a call comes in and on both you can call somebody - and on both you can talk to another person, and on both you hang up - i.e. on both it walks and talks like a phone. So they are both phones.

But one is a rotary phone using a very different technology and a UI paradigm and communication protocal than the mobile phone of today.

So if someone tells you hey, we have a new phone out for your pockets, do you immediately imagine in your mind using a nice blue big rotary landline phone to carry aound in your pockets (complete with spools of wire and all) ? No you dont, cause you have learnt to diassociate that ponderous imagery of the phone term from the rotary phones of yesterday.

How about trying that with computing and a desktop computing ? Trust me its not that hard.

Last edited by nilchak; 2011-07-07 at 22:09.
 

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