maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - Nokia is not Apple and will never be

	Jaffa	2008-03-27 , 13:11
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Originally Posted by brontide

I think what gets me most upset is to see the potential of the NIT platform wasted. There is no hardware limitation that prevents the n8x0 from completing 100% of what a palm can do, 90% of what the iPod Touch can do, and more that neither can do. Software is, and has always been, the linchpin holding the unit back.

Nokia wasted a 3 year head start in the market and has been relegated to a tool for geeks and hackers with limited commercial success.

I can see where you're coming from, but Apple has more invested in the iPhone/iPod Touch than Nokia do in the Internet Tablet line. Orders of magnitude more.

And the features of Apple which make the iPhone great (attention to detail etc.) also mean they'll never produce a consumer device as open as the Internet Tablets. And if the Internet Tablet line was higher-profile within Nokia, it'd be running Symbian rather than Linux.

The world is the state it's in, Nokia isn't Apple; Apple isn't Nokia. Companies should be learning from their competitors and trying to add their technological and ecological distinctiveness to their own; but capturing Apple's X-factor is obviously harder than it first appears.

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