Thread: Everyone else has caught up and Nokia has been left behind
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2010-04-23 , 21:45
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#280
Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
I've asked it before... if OSS is so great on your phone, why hasn't the experience blossomed into something that's greater than what's out there now? To this consumer, it hasn't.
Because phone stack is closed and those features couldn't be integrated into main phone functionality.

If phone stack in N900 was completely open, MMSs could be flawlessly integrated into phone experience by Open Source community. Ditto for *# numbers.

Note difference: for iPhone MMSs were *completely* impossible for *several* years. For N900 they were doable after few weeks.

Sure, I agree that "community" under-delivered in several aspects but in some of them I could lay blame at the Nokia's door. Most important IMO lack of proper and easy to setup developer environment and poor documentation. This thing is being fixed now, partially thanks to Qt.

Other important aspect is incummunicando from Nokia regarding near, middle and far future of platform. And here unfortunately I see little change.