Thread: Dumbing Down Smartphones
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matthewcc is offline matthewcc
2009-12-04 , 10:58
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Originally Posted by f pickels View Post
Nokia is trying to build a phone to basicly do what the I phone did 3 years ago. Nokia aimed low with the N900 and hit low by releasing an unfinished product without many of the basic features of the most basic phones. And in case you have not been paying attention to whats going on in the world, its not about hardware any more, its what you can do with it, today. That means apps and app support. Which Nokia is severely lacking in.

I have to disagree. Nokia is trying to redefine the market with the n900 and like devices. They are saying that their apporach to how a mobile device is the best available and it is what consumers want. An example of this is plug-in's vs. apps. Think about it... it is a 'revolutionary' concept to the clear majority of smart phone users. its saying you don't need an app for that because it is/can be part of the way the device works.

Originally Posted by f pickels View Post
For all the griping I have been hearing about the Apple app store and the restrictions, The OVI store it seems is even a bigger pain in the ***. Here is my favorite, nokia politely telling developers to F@$# off
"EDIT: Chanse Arrington, an employee of Nokia have stated through twitter than Ovi store isn’t the only way to deliver applications, and free applications will be available through Maemo.org.
Yeah way to go Nokia
There have ALWAYS been multiple channels for developers to distribute their wares, ANYONE can open up an appstore... now will ovi carry it? i dont know- but, both symbian and maemo users have been able to get 'apps' from a variety of places and install them on their device. A good example is Google Maps - I dont believe it is even available in the OviStore but I have had it for years running on my n95 and then 5800... I got it right from googles mobile app page.

I hope to see new app stores pop up that might suit me better than ovi. Amazon could come up with its own services channel that lives on your device where you get your music, apps movies etc. I think it would be a GREAT move for a company like amazon. They have great rating tools, brand recognition etc.

Originally Posted by f pickels View Post
Of coarse Apple will update the Iphone, the next incarnation will have full flash support and have 64gb of internal storage. and there will probably be 150,00 apps in the app store by then.
I expect that they will but so what? I have 48gb of storage on my 900 today and will have 64gb as soon as the microSD cards are available. Ovi has been around for 5 months and has half a billion downloads and every day they are selling tens of thousands of ovi-capable devices (including forecast 50 Million Maemo devices sold in 2011) - that is a real market that will drive the supply of new applications. Nokia services are going to hockey stick and grow exponentially,

Of course most of us do not live in a dictatorship and we are each able to choose what we want. Amazing marketing or amazing tech... I know what i want.