Thread: The Nokia IT is NOT a johnny-come-lately!!
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2007-08-09 , 04:03
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#18
Originally Posted by Milhouse View Post
Mine isn't appearing

Maybe he's cottoned on to us and knows he's getting an orchestrated pasting.

I had some serious points to make (well, I thought they were serious)... the quality of the reporting in that article is flat out poor, and unfortunately we all come across sounding like Nokia fanbois (which we undeniably are) yet the point we're trying to make to the guy is that this article is factually incorrect on a number of fundamental points!

Sooooo annoying.... grrrrrr.
Yes, we may have ganged up on him a bit ( but he deserved it). I do give criticism of Nokia when and where criticism is due (even though I buy only Nokia mobiles), and I do not automatically rail about how terrible the iphone is (although I will never buy it). And no matter if poorly executed by Nokia, I think it should be known that the IT was FIRST in its category and was the main impetus for the MID movement that Intel now threatens to claim for itself. Too bad there weren't competing patents, then there would be a reason to pursue the issue.

On a more general note, I have the subtle but distinct feeling that the IT will not receive its proper place in history. Yes, the iPhone is slick, and yes there may be many more Intel MIDs sold by 2010 than Nokia ITs, but it appears to be a foregone conclusion that the place of the IT will be forgotten. This is a lesson as to how people always think that Apple or Sony or some other big marketing machine is the innovator, when they are not.