Thread: What woud you realistically like to see in the N900?
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lardman is offline lardman
2008-08-20 , 09:11
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Worse--Nokia comes out in the press and does the most stupid backwards steps like claiming that OGG is riddled with patent issues preventing them from implementing it--but they'll implement MP3? And then telling the open source community that they NEED to embrace closed architecture and closed software--which tells me that they still don't seem to 'get it'.
My understanding is that there was some legal issue with the OGG Vorbis DSP task, whether that's to do with patents or with whether the work was completed satisfactorily I've no idea. It's well within our power to write our own, if only some of the people who moan about it pulled their fingers out and helped....

Regarding the embracing closed sourceness, well yeah, Nokia are there to make money, if some stuff has to be closed source (to protect their IP, to make hw development cheaper for them, whatever), although I'll not be overly happy about it, I can accept it as long as it doesn't affect what I want to do.

Wifi driver is annoying, as is PowerVR as is IVA, this is a learning experience though, I hope they'll get these and other things sorted out for the next device.