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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
Here's what I don't personally get. I totally understand the unwillingness to embrace technology that you determine is inferior or doesn't suit your needs; however to do that without any usage and/or prior knowledge other than hearsay is rather odd. If you're going to be skeptical, then back it up with research.

I don't quite get it because if somebody says something against your platform of choice, people have a very quick tendency to state "You didn't do your research!" first.

I'm not saying go out, buy everything out there. But at least be able to knowledgeable discuss why you don't like things and why you hadn't looked at it. Otherwise, if you get pushed aside because your rhetoric is easily found repeated ad nauseum at slashdot.org, then folks will dismiss your contribution as a reviewer they'd pay attention to as well. Fanboys, early adopters and FOSS loyalists (not the ones that freely download never contribute, they don't matter mostly anyway) make up a very small buying metric out there.

We're enthusiasts. We'll buy a phone because it has a Linux kernel on it. Not that it means it's better. Or that it's great. But because of that one fact sometimes. And we're a percentage of a percentage, small change.

Ask Nokia.

Do your research. It doesn't hurt.
Yea, I'm quite agreeing with you on most points. Dissing competitors is rather immature. I don't much see the need for that, as I was saying what little I know of WP7 it does have potential and afaik it's even gotten rather positive reviews.

After Nokias announcement I was doing lot of soul searching and was even considering giving WP7 development a shot (I know!! *shiver*), but then in the end I realized they don't have SDK for Linux anyway and in every way it's concentrated around their own product portfolio, so I just don't see the point trying to force myself into that mold even if the product was awesome.

And I don't think that makes me better than those hundreds of millions that fits in it perfectly, I just have different needs!

Anyways, dammit it's easy to get derailed off topic!! Sorry about that, now lets get back to N9 gossip
 

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