Thread: Ari Jaaksi Keynote: MeeGo: A Free & Standard Linux OS for the Mobile Industry
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2010-04-24 , 18:30
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Originally Posted by Crashdamage View Post
Maybe not to you, but both of those aspects (open, full linux OS) are of EXTREME importance to me, and I'm sure to many other users and developers.

All other considerations aside, the Big Brother is Watching aspect alone of Android phones makes them an automatic fail for me. I'll never own another Android phone.
It doesn't matter. I mean there is no difference if you are working with a fully Open OS and Open source or a half Open OS but plenty of Official APIs for developers. APIs are better in my personal opinion because is an official code. Speaking for the commercial market always. This is why Android have 50.000+ Apps in the Android Market while Maemo users are waiting for some developer to find an open source code in order to modify it and port the application to Maemo.

As for the Big Brother eye I agree with you but we do not know how this will go. Maybe Android will change their privacy rules, maybe some MeeGo licensees will follow the same path. But even with Android's bad privacy policies this doesn't stop Google to sell 60,000 phones daily. This is a number that even Nokia the No1 phone manufacturer in the world with 41% smartphone market share, can be jealous of.

Originally Posted by janne.palo View Post
I think nokia should have placed the end-user satisfaction to top of their list much sooner, i know four people besides me that uses N900 and they are all very disapointed with the GUI and the experience they have had with this phone. Personally im very happy with my phone but only after all the modifications i have made.
Yes, as I said above this is something they admit in the video. A big slap to those in here was hitting on the guys asking for portrait mode, MMS better cal log etc. with the excuse that that the N900 is a mobile computer. Yes it is and its great but it a phone first of all and its a commercial product for an end-user use. The competition is already offering great products and thats making the problem even bigger. It doesn't get simpler than that and yet it took them so long to realize it. Not at all a good performance for an Open-Source//Open-Minded business
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