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Originally Posted by sxr71 View Post
Just now I received a call. When I looked at the phone it was a blank screen. It glitched and it took about 5 seconds to show the actual answer button. Do you think people want to deal with this kind of thing?

You have grand visions of FOSS changing the world and freeing us of our dependence on money grubbing corporations and proprietary software. I respect that, but seriously you couldn't get people to care unless and until you package it right.

You linux chest thumpers will never understand that. Has even one Linux desktop distribution taken greater than 3% marketshare? Analyze the situation and learn from it if you want FOSS to succeed in the mobile space. Instead of criticizing the user's perspective, understand it. That is the only way you can pull off what you want to pull off.

Start with getting rid of the BS elitist attitude. That would be step one.
I understand that you want everything perfect. If that is what you expect nokia is not for you. The nokia user interface is never perfect and going by the way the company works it never will be. There will be few quirks and bugs in any nokia device you use. But what nokia differs from other companies and apple in specific is that they believe in providing as many functions as any one can possibly can in their devices. Now you must understand that the more functions the more possibility that there will be bugs. You need to make a decision if you want to deal with perfection or more functions. Obviously nokia tries to reduce those quirks and bugs as much as possible and also remember that maemo 5 is in its very raw stage. Even the iphone first gen also had many bugs and very less features which were later updated with firmwares. My friend's iphone 3g even just gets stuck and does not respond sometimes. But if you are willing to work around the early quirks and hold a little while while you pass the learning curve and nokia updates the firmware you will really notice that there is a huge advantage to having functions rather than perfection. Just have some patience. And i bet there will be many workarounds for your problems once more members get the retail units. Just keep following maemo.org and you will notice how dynamic maemo is and you will never get bored with the n900 unlike your iphone.
 

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