Thread: Next-gen Nokia devices with Multitouch and Maemo 6 soon coming?
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Suurorca is offline Suurorca
2009-10-14 , 17:01
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#43
Originally Posted by hqh View Post
Buying any electronic/high-tech devices based primarily on future expectations is incredibly stupid. If you do this all the time, then it IS indeed a sure way to lose a lot of money.

Either you buy the device based on the features available now or you don't buy it.

And if you start worrying about more advanced future models you will be unable to buy anything, because announced or not there will always be a better model.
The way I view it, that just couldn't be more wrong.
In fact, when shopping for something that's literally going part of you for quite some time, I for one am ready to give up some existing features for longer device life. Upgradebility is a major factor with a device with 700 EUR price tag. I don't expect to use the thing for the next 5 years, but I sure would love to.

I suppose the coders at Nokia really just don't know what to do with Maemo 6 yet... Legacy support should imho be a political decision when you start the project, not something you wait and see how things turns out.
 

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