Thread: Let's talk Nokia stock. Really.
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TheoX is offline TheoX
2013-08-12 , 06:00
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#1766
Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
Well, isn't this actually just the thing Nokia did with N9?
When you use it without developer mode and with deault settings (only install from the store) you get the everymans/womans phone with nice GUI & installable safe apps.

With N9 you get most of the important bits as source, there are lots of stuff that's NOT opened and that's an annoyance but really, you get the important stuff on a DVD just by asking for it, no need to pay even for the cost of the media&shipping (For which they COULD actually charge you for, according to the open source licencing...)
Hey, just to be clear, I wasn't promoting in any way HTC. I was just pointing an idea out with a clear example. Of course HTC don't give you the sources (none of the sources for the HTC modded Android OS, so you don't have access to Sense and stuff like that). You now can root you device and develop custom apps with root access and modify your kernel (yes they give you the kernel sources). HTC don't charge you either, but let's not get too deep with this HTC thing because that's not my point.

I appreciate a device that fits my needs. I need a smartphone that can work without any mods and that will do it's job and I need a device that I can satisfy my modder desires and this second one is too hard to get. Nokia had only the N900 that can do this and the N9 after activating the developer mode. HTC unlocks all the Android phones and that's about it... Samsung is locked and without hacks, real home-made hacks, it's not possible further modding, same goes for LG, SONY, Sony-Ericsson, Blackberry, iPhone and so on.

And now let's be realistic on this, Nokia have this very annoying German spirit, if they do something they close it very tight so nobody can have access to it. They did that with Simbian, they did this with most of the basic apps of the maemo/meego and now they are doing the same thing with Windows, and now let's be sincere, isn't this such a bummer for every smartphone user today? How many Android users don't have root? How many iOS users don't have jailbreak?

Microsoft seems to follow the company-killer example of Nokia and here is the best example: developers were on a good path to break the Windows Phone OS and the bootloader on these devices, so they can start to open up this OS. Microsoft launched the latest GDR2 Amber update for WP8 and also updated the bootloader making it even more secure, and now, because all the users got that update, the dev's work is now in vain...

So to get back on my point. Except the N900, N9, some HTC's and that's about it, everything was built so closed and tight that whatever you choose that is not going to satisfy your developer/modder/hacker desires.