Thread: PCWorld Article: Nokia N900: Hot and Not
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gerbick
2009-11-12 , 16:56
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Originally Posted by cake View Post
Guilty as charged. The thing is, I used to mention the iPhone's lack of MMS in passing, because the iPhone lacked so many basic features - video recording, cut/copy & paste, A2DP &c.
But it has those now. The push from "iPhone doesn't even have MMS" to "The N900 doesn't need MMS" smacks of acceptance and basically forgetting that something like MMS was a point, but now it's not!?

Way too convenient.

The article comes across as somewhat ignorant in a number of ways. I guess it's been noted that sending an MMS to "friends and family" would probably set you back a couple bucks at the very least, and people who are actually interested in your baby pictures - or whatever it is you feel you have to share instantly - would have subscribed to your flickr/twitter/faecebook.
Here we agree. It's a feature I really didn't miss, but when I got them sent to me, it was INFURIATING to use a link, with a slightly complex username but somewhat simple password and not be near a computer.

I guess Ovi store is a problem for medium-to-low-tech users, or the kinds of users who really feel they need an app to make fart sounds for them. I don't expect all those Debian apps to pass through Ovi, though. The N900 was never aimed at iPhone users, so I can see how it would fail in that sense.
Ovi is a bigger problem because people will think that they're buying a phone with zero apps. Consumers tend to not do little things like research. So they can't get Tetris... or they can't get Brightkite, or they can't send a message to another phone without using e-mail... sounds like the iPhone in its first outing. Boring as hell.

Ovi is a problem because it just doesn't have the apps that are quickly compelling... yet. And I'm tired of waiting with an product in my hand and no apps to do what I really want.