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Originally Posted by earl00 View Post
I think Nokia are scum. They release unfinished expensive devices one after the other, and fool everyone to think their devices are released complete. $300-400 was the price for the 770 and 800 when first released. Then they hardly give any support for their rushed devices before they want us to believe/purchase a brand new $400 device again that claims to be worth the upgrade. What about people that got there device 6 months after its released, they get to use their device for less than a year before it gets dropped and unsupported. Then nokia expect us to fork out another $400 for something that hopefully works well and will be supported for more than 1 year. I hate apple, but a least there devices get support for eternity unlike Nokia scum. I couldn't care less for the new tablet. My hard earned money will go to another company. This next IT will come out and nokia will leave it up to 3rd party to develop apps, there goes n800 support from Nokia and 3rd party, then ... you know the cycle. Give us at least a proper media center or pay someone to write good programs - give money to coreplayer or something, i'm sick of loading 4 different players to play certain video/music files. No word, pc sync, nothing... for those who have the n800 already stay far way from Nokia's future marketing scams. Let them show us they can support the next device by showing us first with the N800 and 770. DO NOT GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT(money) BEFORE THEY GIVE US WHAT WE ASK(support). DO NOT BUY THE NEW IT. Let the new IT suffer so they can finally learn not to screw the consumer over all the time. And Thoughtfix, I hope you tell Nokia these things when you go to these parties, try not to suck up to them so they can send you a free device to write good reviews - i know how things work in that department.
Why do you think the tablets are open (unlike Apple)? If you want something, go ahead and make it or pay someone else to do it. Things aren't perfect, but they're better than you think. They've promised us support for the N800 for at least the next two major Maemo versions. They continue to support the 770 by paying people to work on it even though there's no profit to be made from it (2007 HE). They keep putting out newer applications like Video Center.

And besides, it's not like Nokia dropping support for an older tablet makes it suddenly useless like you seem to think. It's not like Nokia announces that the 770 is no longer supported and you just can't use it anymore.

Nokia's shown me with the N800 that they are interested in catering to people like me and they're showing that they are interested in improving upon their previous work. I have no doubt it'll be the same with the next tablet and I'll happily give them my money for it.