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Looks like Jeremy Allison has joined the ranks of the 770 discontented...
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Simon
2005-11-29 , 18:30
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I agree with Jeff. They have a hard job now making the situation better. Also the lack of any information from Nokia after they basically muffed the product release gives a very bad impression on what their overall attitude to the product will be. If it seems they don't care about the product and don't care about their customers now why would they care more once it does start shipping. It seems very odd after they have done so much to help developers with it with their support for the whole open source mode. I wonder if there isn't some kind of internal politics involved here. Nokia is a phone company. And non phone type things aren't their strong point lets be honest. Look at the N-Gage. As in any big corporation I wouldn't be surprised if there are people inside Nokia who WANT the 770 to fail. I've seen that myself at big corporates I have worked at. Sure in theory you're all one big happy family but in reality people have their own agendas. The impression I have always had with the 770 is it is a smallish, spin off, lets try it and see type project appealing to geeks and hackers. Maybe I am wrong there but that's the impression I always got. The fact it is open source, that the apps that come with it are fairly basic, that the hardware is a little lacking (memory, processor speed, expansion, etc) and also that there were so few available at launch (and when I say launch I always think of the first Vanguard rocket!) says to me they haven't gone all out to make this a success. It's a test product. I still want to get one but I wouldn't be surprised if it soon we see Palm/Pocket PCs with similar sized screens optimised for web and wireless at a reasonable price. In reality a Pocket PC with that size screen and wireless would be a much more useful device. Of course it is unlikely we'd see them at the same price. That is one of the 770s strong points. Of course price means nothing if you can't actually buy one!
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