Thread: Where is Nokia - no announcement no product - still in hibernation
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
I agree, but it's also a battle they can sidestep, given their reputation and weight in the mobile market, with the decision to shop around for component manufacturers who were willing to join them in making a much more open Internet Tablet platform.
It's also a battle that has already borne fruit. Texas Instruments has greatly increased openness and become very active in the Linux development for OMAP3. ST-NXP Wireless released the specs for the WiFi chips in the N800 and N810, which resulted in an open source WiFi driver.

No, we're not there yet, but you can hardly accuse Nokia of neglecting this issue.

Originally Posted by danramos View Post
I'm not saying it would be any easier, I'm just saying that it's not unrealistic.
Nothing's totally unrealistic, but you have to balance getting a product to market and making money (which gives you more leverage in the future to push the open agenda) and sticking to your guns, never actually shipping anything and helping nobody.

Idealism is all well and good, but this is the real world we live in where everything can't be black and white. Would you really rather there had been no tablets at all if the hardware hadn't been 100% open?
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