Thread: Nokia is not Apple and will never be
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2008-03-26 , 16:50
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I don't think the OP knows what he is talking about. I literally see a lot of B.S.

I was unaware that Nokia were trying to be like Apple. I see no BSD...

really crappy video camera
Well, you could have easily seen this one online. Not to say I agree with those points but a google for Nokia N800 - gives me wikipedia as 7th result. Ok,
Camera 640 × 480 VGA
The word VGA tells me that the camera isn't going to be great. I mean if you have a bit of knowledge, it's pretty much a no **** sherlock.


They list some 166 apps for n8x0, out of which some 90% are either un-installable or not functioning or basically unusable or simply useless.
Umm, I've installed a lot of apps there fine. hint, for the latest release of ITOS, you click OS2008

For example not a single app/utility that has anything to do with mapping works properly or at all. Maemo Mapper is a total joke as far as map management is concerned, its UI grossly subpar compared to any commercial offering, all others (City Guide, Map Tiler, etc) are basically nonfunctional.
Don't use it. I don't think gnuite gives a **** if someone doesn't use it. For me, I don't use it. Not because I don't like it but I have no need for it.
So, if you wanted commercial programs, why buy the N800? It runs Linux (the quality that attracted me to it). The OS itself is open source! Or rather, why not stick to your perfect working commercial apps?

There are a few low level (no GUI) utilities that work for the most part but even there problems abound. For example App Manager told me yesterday three updates to openssh suite are available. Well one of them installed, the other two refused - missing package or two.
Wow, your detail is astounding :O . What non-gui apps? And last time I looked, Application Manager wasn't a command line application. Although saying that, Application Manager is the one thing I would love to see go. It has problems with a lot of things with application installing (openssh is one & also it cannot find dependencies for programs installed from deb file) & it is extremely slow with displaying detailed lists. It also doesn't feature resizable toolbars (very important as we saw a while back with with long version names). I explained why I didn't like it. Pretty hypocritical for me, not to say proper reasons why I don't like it.

Now what kind of person releases an update to a major important s/w package w/o making sure that all the required packages are included? Unacceptably sloppy person that is. And that seem to be the norm in this community.
A person who does a lot more for the community rather than just flaming. What have you done for this community? I'd like to see your port of OpenSSH.

As for me, I'm not the best person to talk. Maybe a lot of you think my points are ********.
Last edited by qwerty12; 2008-03-26 at 17:08.
 

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