Thread: Everyone else has caught up and Nokia has been left behind
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-04-22 , 16:53
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#45
Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
This whole "walled garden" hatred has honestly produced nothing when all of this freedom has been given on the N900. Absolutely nothing so far.
That's Nokia dropping the ball, it says nothing about openness.

If that's freedom, it stinks. Being able to pop open terminal, gain root on a tacked on phone experience on a tablet isn't freedom.
Control on that level is freedom. Having to fight the vendor for control is the antithesis of freedom.

There's nothing inherently wrong with the Apple ecosystem, IMO, except for how Apple denies users the ability to side load software. I would have far less of an issue with it if you could do so without having to fight Apple to do it.