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wmarone	2010-01-18 , 02:59
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Originally Posted by real_per

Is this a hobby project, for people to be messing around with, or it this supposed to be a serious work device, that the £500 price tag suggests ?

Both, IMO. It's quite capable of that,

I have to say that i completely boggles the mind, that the main App store, for Nokias newly introduced big mobile OS is allowed to be down for a whole weekend

To be fair, the Ovi store is still up. What's down are all the community repositories that the Application Manager waves its hands and sends you on your merry way.

it seems more like a garage project, runned by hobbyists... But for someone who bought into Nokias marketing, this just feels like another big slap in the face.

Maemo has always been, and hopefully always will be, a project that takes the user community into consideration more than any other. Instead of being given a device and told "You can do X, Y, and Z" and to do more you have to perform contortions (jailbreaking/rooting,) we have a device that's totally open from the get-go. I can tolerate a weekend of downtime if that's what it takes to ramp up the community available resources to handle all the users.

... I'd also pitch a fit at the ISP, and work on getting some good mirrors going like Jebba suggested. If my upstream were better than Comcast provided, I'd host one.