Thread: N9 [Shipping]: It's finally here [for some]!
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gerbick
2011-07-07 , 22:27
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Originally Posted by nilchak View Post
Yeah, its portable computer - who says its a "desktop in your pocket" ?
But when you say portable computer... and you don't denote otherwise, the connotation is wide open to mean "desktop". More words would alleviate the lack of understanding.

Why do you conflate the two terms - computing with desktop ?
See above. It's not intentional, but you say computer in my pocket, I'm gonna think desktop. And this is coming from a man that owned an OQO 01+.

Maybe its just years of using a desktop that is the reason we cant think in a new way and use the old blinders to see new paradigms?
Nail. Head. Hit. Bingo.

And Gerbick, I also agree with some of the dissapointments that you and Dan (and myself) share. -but lets look forward, the old dissapointments arent gong to right itself in this changing ecosystem of a mobile world.
I am looking forward. I just don't see how in the hell they will make this competitive. "New" isn't competitive any longer. "New and fits into your lifestyle, grows with you, plays your media, doesn't take up too much of your time to learn new, obscure commands if you're an idiot that shouldn't own anything past a dumb phone..." sells now. Simply put, we're stuck with having the bottom denominator dictate what we have.

Thank goodness Maemo could actually make both parties - the consumer and the developer happy. Problem is... it ain't doing it yet.

What we have to consider is is the new path that Nokia is trying with Meego/Harmattan a sustainable path - a new path indeed - a intuitive and productive path for us?
All I see is Elop undercutting each and every MeeGo/Harmattan movement forward with WP7 talk, leaks and rhetoric.

That is not how you build a sustainable path.
 

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