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Originally Posted by semiquaver View Post
Maemo is developed by an entity that makes decisions based on profit. If it doesn't eventually cause Nokia to make money, it will be abandoned and it will be a long time before another company puts so much faith in such an open platform again.
people are repeating this over and over again.
it's still not logical.
we lose the open platform if it doesn't generate profit.
and we lose it if it turns into something different in order to generate more profit.
either way, we lose. how is one of those scenarios better than the other?

the only good thing we should hope for is that we can keep this open platform the way it is - because enough people will like it the way we do. if they don't, there's no way to save it.

Originally Posted by semiquaver View Post
Design is critical in consumer products, and though I'm no fan, Apple is better at it than Nokia.
i doubt that. whenever i have to operate any apple product (desktop pc, iphone, ipod), after 3 minutes i feel the urge of throwing it against the wall or trampling upon it. these beasts never do what i want them to and, worse, they never communicate clearly what i could do as a next step in the workflow. i usually sit and stare at the screen, helplessly pressing the same buttons over and over again...
it's design that may work a minority of people with an exceptionally high IQ. i'm too dumb for it.

(oh, maybe by "design" you meant the looks of the UI... that's a completely different thing. we have enough themes.)
 

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