Thread: Dr. Ari Jaaksi on Maemo 5
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Jerome is offline Jerome
2008-09-22 , 21:10
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Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
you could start a specific entry called $NAME/Germany.
This is what I did, isn't it?


Its a combination of factors, perhaps also a whole new platform (Maemo, Hildon) and the fact Nokia dabbled into this market. The Sharp Zaurus also provided internet connectivity, and ran Linux. One of my beefs with the Zaurus was that the WWW browsing was severely cluttered, so usability might also be an argument for 770.
The Zaurus was also a new platform (QT). The Zaurus had an adequate browser at the times. Opera and even Netfront worked fairly well. Flash was not a big thing at the time.
I still have a few zauruses (zaurii?). The main problem is that they do not support wpa (I know they can with a different wifi card) or bluetooth (and yes: I have an adapter).

Still: I see the 770 as the only successor to the Zaurus. Sharp tried to bring a linux palmtop to the market, and quickly backed out (I had to import the second one from Japan). Nokia started where they left.


Oh, don't be sarcastic. Many people don't even read them. They just sign a contract without knowing what they sign. I once had a bank trying to pull me into this trick, and I told them to go **** themselves. And, to give another example: whenever I got hired, I first read the contract.
It's my job to read legal stuff and spot the errors and I like being sarcastic.


Its a cat and mouse game which, if telcos want to win, means many people will lose. Ie. ban of cryptographic protocols, or only allow specific protocols.
The masses are losing already. Telcos make their main profits from sms, ringtones and premium services. The telcos are only interested in keeping this situation running. They don't care if 10 linux geeks find a way to run voip as long as the masses keep buying pre-configured branded phones.

You seem to forget that it is a number game. The telcos don't care about anything as long as it is not conveniently packaged in a preconfigured phone. Then they get nasty.

For the future N900, this means that it will not be designed to be a voip over hsdpa only device. Nokia knows how nasty the telcos can be, telcos are their main customers. Of course, it could be that Nokia decides for a frontal attack, but I seriously doubt that. Still: they went for a frontal attack with music sales, so maybe I will be surprised...