Thread: Will Joe Average understand why the N900 is special?
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2009-10-09 , 21:03
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Originally Posted by Bratag View Post
If Joe Average is not clued in enough to google last.fm and able to figure out what it does then .... oh you see where I am going with this.

I think the old adage of "Every time I think I have made something idiot proof, they build a better idiot" applies. Eventually the user is going to have to use some actual brain power, regardless of how average he is. Nothing is idiot proof.

The store is brand new and has two pages because its not actually open yet.
I think the store is great and I hope it will have many more polished apps available by the time the N900 starts shipping. And I said that before.

The garage is a somewhat disorganized, somewhat grimy garage. I would not even tell a new user it existed. For community projects I'd point them at maemo.org's Downloads section.

Joe Average isn't an idiot any more than Jim Developer, although both can act like it at times. I fully understand, as some do not, that the only thing that really needs to be printed on the N900 (or any other) retail box is a bar code and that I can Google my way from there. I prefer a bit more information a bit better organized. If you are going to label that anything, label it laziness. And remember that we are all lazy in our own way.
 

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