Thread: Everyone else has caught up and Nokia has been left behind
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gerbick
2010-04-22 , 17:01
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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
That's Nokia dropping the ball, it says nothing about openness.
In such a wide open platform, direction needs to be offered. In open source, too many ideas, design by committee, or even free thought still needs to be somewhat directed to make sure their solutions and software work on a platform (for instance). I still see both separately... and lacking.

Control on that level is freedom. Having to fight the vendor for control is the antithesis of freedom.
Not one argument there.

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.
And here is where I go on record stating that I quite dislike Apple's ecosystem. Not because I want root. Not because I want to run Flash. Not even because I'm not forced to develop using their mandated languages and not use wrappers around code languages I know better.

I dislike the fact that my money has a louder voice than my opinion inside of the Apple ecosystem. I'm not even an user. I'm a source of income only. I'm a dollar. I'm a number.

With Maemo, I could have a voice... even one that the community might get behind. But not there.

And yet... I'm starting to feel as ignored by Nokia as I do with Apple. "Thanks for your N900 purchase... we'll update you when we feel like it..." - Nokia

Gee. Thanks. Can I at least get a few games outside of Angry Birds for it? Can I sync with my Mac without having to hack it and lose that ability next PR update?

(for the record, I don't own a N900)