Thread: Where is Nokia - no announcement no product - still in hibernation
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2009-01-10 , 05:45
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Originally Posted by namtastic View Post
Because it's not sold as a pocket Linux computer, but as an "internet experience." I bought my first tablet because of Nokia's mobile expertise, and because it running Linux meant new and interesting apps would be plentiful. But I did expect *some* leadership in app design in the vein of S60 projects like Widsets, Share Online, Nokia Search or Podcasting from Nokia but instead got a beta of Video Center that seems to have been abandoned.
OK, so you expected certain things from Nokia. That's fine, but when those things come from the community, they don't come encumbered by Nokia, which makes them many times more desirable to users. Personally, I'd rather see Nokia do what it can to enable community efforts and build a strong platform for the efforts to rest upon, rather than wasting time implementing every little thing everybody thinks they should bundle by default.

Originally Posted by namtastic View Post
Ultimately, It's the core experience -- an 800px wide "full" web browser with Flash -- that keeps me using it, but honestly that core experience hasn't grown much since November 2005. And that core experience is owned by Nokia and theirs to change.
Oh, pish, did you use OS2005? . . . I did, Opera on the 770 was atrocious.

Originally Posted by namtastic View Post
Things will improve for the community with Mer . . .
Yes, leveraging Nokia's continued efforts.
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