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Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
They exist, but they are hidden from the masses because they don't care about this. If they are not hidden to the masses and the masses are not guided you get a chaotic mess of confusement, or people with too much time figuring out what is best for them.
Boy does this sound like an Apple commercial

So instead of having an ICQ Messenger, an AIM Messenger, an MSN Messenger, IRC chat, Yahoo Chat you have by default Pidgin and it does all of that reasonably well. If I install Ubuntu Desktop I get Pidgin. Maybe I'd like a dialog when I install Windows, to ask me if I want Mozilla Firefox, Opera or Microsoft Internet Explorer. I wouldn't pick the latter then, and at the very least I want the choice to have applications use something else than MSIE or Trident to render their stuff. And instead of having 100 choices you need to make clear to the customer why your product is better. For example because it contains less fat, or because it has some official label, or some random buzzword.
And in what way is this different than what you have now ? You have one mail app, one browser, one AIM, one <you name it> installed from Nokia repos. For everything else the daring souls can go to extras.

EDIT: The only thing missing is that perhaps application manager does not show the maemo.org ratings and comments for a particular package.

Last edited by attila77; 2009-05-28 at 11:59.
 

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