Thread: Here Is Why The PR 1.2 Firmware For The Nokia N900 Is Late
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2010-05-18 , 16:10
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Originally Posted by phi View Post
I'm not gonna try to dig back to 8 months ago to find the pertinent information, but look at the resources Nokia was putting towards PUSH N900 http://blogs.nokia.com/pushn900/

Meanwhile, Google & Apple had set up funds & competitions to developers that could bring the best in class apps to their platforms

http://code.google.com/android/adc/
http://www.kpcb.com/initiatives/ifund/index.html
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You're correct to say that PUSH was a total failure. Did you see any of the results? They were lame and barely covered in the technical press. Apologies for using the word lame.
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