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Originally Posted by detronizator View Post
Man, I was thinking of receiving a comment like that to that sentence.

Honestly, I technologically agree with you. They are not features (and indeed, I didn't call them so).
But I'm in this business for enough time now to say that there is no Mass Market without those "funtionalities". And, yes, they are there more to make the interest of the Companies then to make the interest of the Consumers.

BUT, to have a massive success, a large base of installation, something "of the iPhone size", you need to have a secure, solid platform. And for now PlatSec, in all it's different forms, has been the only way to deliver it.

My favourite? The Android one. Is still open enough that you can install anything from anyone if you want, but it's at least creating the filtering and giving the user the informations "to make him/her aware of what he/she is doing". Symbian PlatSec, on the other hand, is the example to avoid.

DRM is going to be required until all Media-producer will make their mind and stop bothering us. Once we see that happening (and you have iTunes of example of where this ALREADY HAPPENED), it will be a better world
As long as DRM exists, there will be people who break DRM. The more popular the platform, the faster it happens. That is unless they provide an outlet to spread apart the people who want to do things like do homebrew and boot Linux off random things from the people who want to break the DRM to distribute applications and get things for free. Combined they are a deadly force. A system that makes you choose between the two (what Maemo 6 appears to be doing) might help but I can't imagine it'll be ideal (e.g. a DRM mode and a DRM-free mode).
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
They're maemo and MeeGo...

"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...