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Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
What device do YOU want? That's the only important answer for YOU. If you want loads of apps, then get iPhone or Android.

Who has made a pocket size Linux box/phone? Nokia. Who has in fact made several of them? Nokia. Who has made the coolest pocketable Linux box ever? Nokia (N9).

You are just a bunch of suckers, buying into commercials and hype. "Minds hare" - a fancy word for corporate-manipulated no brain sheep mentality: Good for large corporations - bad for YOU. Just a simple test, if it is important to you that "your" company has great mind share and/or market share, then you are a corporate-manipulated sheep, as per definition (unless you are investing).

Then we have the clowns (***amos and ***ick et al) who have got their life destroyed because of Nokias falling mind share and market share. They have now become self proclaimed haters. Writers have written tons of stuff about the (meta)psychology of this, but regarding more existential matters than gadgets. The word pathetic comes to mind.

I mean, apparently Nokia has done some insane things from a corporate point of view, so be it. Do they (still) make the coolest devices (according to ME) ? definitely. That's all there is to it. Yesterday I saw that they are selling Nokia C7, two for the price of one Test number two: Is that a cool thing or a sad/bad thing?

As a side note. I finally installed Linux Mint, mainly just to see how well my laptop handles 64 bit Linux. I have to admit, Mint is the most positive Open Source experience yet, get things working instead of all this pseudo-religious idealist nonsense.
I bought some Nokia stock today, let's see how this works out. I think in the end they can be successful with their new strategy.