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Milhouse is offline Milhouse
2010-01-28 , 00:37
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#185
Originally Posted by speculatrix View Post
BTW, Milhouse, yeah, we get the message. But you know what, if we wanted to embrace the apple mindset, where apple know what's best for us, and if apple don't do it it's not worth doing, and itunes is the source of everything good and great, and DRM is OK and Steve loves us really... then we'd buy a freakin' ipod or iphone.
Instead we're enthusiasts, willing to put a bit of effort into our devices, to understand them customise them, adapt them, and not be a prisoner to some DRM that might vapourise leaving us with useless media (think "plays for sure", yahoo's magic vanishing music store etc). The only boundary is the raw performance of the devices and the efforts of the community and nokia.
That's just the point - I don't want to embrace the Apple mindset either, and I do want Nokia to succeed. However it's hard to see how Nokia will remain relevant in the longer term unless they can compete on software terms AND service terms with a company like Apple. The content providers backing the iPad is pretty damned impressive, you have to admit.

Obviously Nokia don't need to copy Apple in terms of everything they do - particularly control freakery aspect - but they do have to match them in terms of the end user experience, and this is a big, big challenge that has been known about for years and is only very slowly being achieved, but is it too slow? I think it might be.

5 years on and while progress has been made in Maemo there is so much further to go before it would be possible to recommend Maemo to the common man in place of iPhone OS, or even Android.

Nokia will not survive in this market by catering to "enthusiasts", eventually even you might begin to wonder why you are bothering!
 

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