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#175
Originally Posted by ghoonk View Post
If you bought an NIT for Games, PIM and Office, you bought the wrong device.

If you bought an NIT thinking that Nokia owes it to you that PIM, Office and Games will be developed, you bought the wrong device.

Nokia made the platform fairly open so that developers would be able to write applications to extend the functionality of the tablet. If these applications do not exist, or if they perform poorly, then the onus would be on the developer community to respond to that demand, or to the developer to optimize the code further. In some cases, the tablet simply lacks enough processing power for certain tasks, e.g. image editing a la Photoshop -- a developer might be able to write an application for the NiT, but it is likely to encounter performance issues.

At this point in time, the size of the maemo developer base is still relatively small and hence applications are not flying out of the ether. Time may change this, or it may not, but if you bought something believing that it would do certain things that it is not obliged to do, then you need to realise that belief doesn't change reality
I never said I bought it for games, PIM and Office strictly. If you would have read my previous post, I said I bought it as a quick way to get on the internet. I also said that I bought it because it ran Linux but coming from a Windows background, I didn't know there were different versions of Linux and they are not compatible with each other. I F'd up there.

I never said that Nokia owed it to me to have PIM, Offiice, games and other apps available. What I DID say was that if they DID have those available, they would have possibly more buyers of the NIT and thereby create a larger userbase rather than just catering mainly to the geeks. The more functionality/features a device has, the more likely someone (joe public) is to buy it.

Look at what's out there today (Palm, Windows mobile devices or even PC's or Macs), there are thousands of programs available for them. Each device has quite a bit of functionality due to the abundance of various software available.

I do understand the hardware limitations. Hell, I have trouble browsing and using Skype/Gizmo at the same time without either the browser locking up or Gizmo/Skype disconnecting mid call.

I think what Nokia needs to do to be successful with the NIT is stick to one OS platform (don't go from Bora to Chinook to whatever..stick to one version), and develop more programs or have more third party software developers (much like what is currently on other platforms (windows, palm, mac, windows mobile) develop them.

Last edited by Wzrd; 2008-03-03 at 07:32.