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#604
Originally Posted by lma View Post
Why not? I'm probably weird, but I would like to see vendors trying to "differentiate" and compete less on the task switcher or having the absolute lowest price and more on areas that matter like hardware specs and features, build quality, after-sales support, and yes, openness and collaboration.

On the PC world everyone can grab exactly the same version of Windows (or Ubuntu, whatever) and slap it on devices, and yet the buyers still can make perfectly rational and intelligent choices and the makers of the cheapest models aren't the market leaders. Why are "mobile" customers automatically treated like idiots?
Really can they? There is only one company on the PC market and they feed the HW manufactors to use theyr OS. Its all about money. Actually where treated as idiots on the PC markets too.

A small company like Jolla has only slighest chance to compete on the market if they make it "as open as possible" but still make the "hard job" closed so no competitor do copy theyr work and make it new HW for half of the price.

We have to accept that stuff is not fully open. But what I think they can do for the community is:
  • fix stuff that the community expect to be integrated in the closed componets.
  • listen when people ask for bugs to get fixed in closed drivers etc...
  • They can also make alot more API semipublic via dbus calls/events.

    Example is the camera on N9. Where I want an public API to take a photo instead of tweak my cambutton app to "fake a button press".

Last edited by mikecomputing; 2012-07-14 at 20:14.