Thread: Is the N900 ever going to be a polished product?
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dannycamps is offline dannycamps
2010-07-03 , 15:45
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Originally Posted by chatbox View Post
So are you saying that you're OK with "It's fine to have Nokia's end-users to fix, address the issues because Maemo is an open platform" (Not exactly certain what you mean by "open", open source? Open apps eco-system? Open APIs? All of the above?)
Yes I am fine with that. I can send and receive MMS messages on my phone now. I don't care if that function was provided by Nokia, Frals, or some third party company. The end result is the phone does what I want it to.

While not all aspects of the N900 are open (i.e. phone, conversations, etc...) as noted above - there are enough parts of the OS that are open that the community can compensate for some of the platform's short-comings.

Originally Posted by chatbox View Post
Companies these days are selling crappy products to customers very early in a product's life cycle, and in turn, saves a little on in-house testing, plus they start to see a return sooner the sooner they start selling. This, to me, up to an extent is unacceptable.
Unfortunately this is a trend being seen more and more these days in all industries. For example, you go spend $60-$70 on a new Playstation 3 game only to not have it work because of a bug that requires you to spend two hours downloading and installing a patch. Companies are getting lazy and sloppy choosing to adopt a 'release it now - fix it later' mentality.
 

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