Citing the much faster adoption of openness from other vendors using similar hardware and Nokia's public statements about how everyone should feel the love for closed architectures doesn't instill confidence. But I'm quite open to being corrected if Nokia, TI and other involved parties will come out and actually demonstrate it more in public so that we know they're actually doing something for us. If they're doing this in closed rooms and we're talking speculation then there's nothing there to help convince me. I'm sure an open press release will go pretty far for all involved as it did for ASUS when they opened up.

Are you sure this is attributed to Nokia's efforts? I've not been convinced so far, based on what they've released to us as actionable news and not just wordy feel-good fluff.

If I had more to go on it would help a lot to convince people around me who look to me as the person that tries all this stuff out and follows the openness trends in gadgets. I've even had a few business owners approach me about the usefulness of the tablet in their organizations. So far, I've seen much more publicized actions from other parties even though I can't imagine that they would have the same pull as a big company like Nokia.

I've been a very, very happy N800 owner for a long time now and I've seen people buy it up around me because they've seen me make it do things that they've only been able to do on their laptops. Many of them are former or current Palm owners like I am. I credit that very highly to the tinkering openness geeky factor. You only need to look at the iPhone and how limited people felt with it that they needed to jailbreak it to make it do what the customer wanted.