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Originally Posted by qole View Post
javispedro: "Voodoo" is part of the Linux experience. Even on the slickest Linux desktops, I find myself editing configuration files, typing long, obscure commands (as root) into the terminal, and hunting for answers on the forums...
That's the "fun" voodoo.

The "scary" voodoo is the one where your only hope is to wait for $RANDOM_GENIUS to understand the phone chipset and port/rewrite the kernel/a driver for the platform. A platform where the first non-vendor approved installed application appears on newspaper. Where asking the device manufacturer for drivers, source code or plain specifications is laughed at.

You can see examples of that voodoo in the iphone community, but most current smartphones are like that. The nit was a big step in the "right" direction, but I fear that adding a phone chipset to it might undo that bold step, because it will be yet another forever closed component or the device will become a much more prominent spotlight in Nokia's portfolio and as such, more closed. Time will tell.

Of course, I wouldn't expect that adding a phone woud make it harder to use for the average joe. It's just that it's hard to express myself, specially in a foreign language.

Last edited by javispedro; 2009-06-24 at 20:14. Reason: Capitalization and misc fixes
 

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