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Originally Posted by imperiallight View Post
And there lies the crux of it, most of us end users don't want to and shouldn't have to depend solely on non commercial developers. We should have the opportunity to buy apps created by teams of paid developers. The device itself should be looked to be improved by Nokia so as to be competitive. The community is a bonus and they don't owe anybody anything. Other devices have community hackers and scripters too though.

I know you understand this. And to some extent, us end users should "get over it and face reality". We got screwed during the limited lifespan of the n900. And the next device by being immediately cross compatible with symbian apps and with a bigger Nokia expenditure and focus will probably be better.

I don't think its right that annoyed users bring everyone else down, especially not developers and happy users but I do think they should have an area to vent, give feedback and criticism. Perhaps a debate and discussion area should be made and users can opt out of them appearing on their feed.
You know what? I completly understand that. And I think it's messed up that Nokia continues to mess up over and over. But for people to take their anger, annoyance, whatever at Nokia out on the community just destroys whatever chance they have left for their device to get any support. Kinda like Stskeeps' point below.

Anyway I hope that Nokia at bare minimum will ensure that we have some compatibility with QT (even if we don't have multi-touch or whatever). Not all apps need multi-touch.

Originally Posted by Stskeeps View Post
Personally, I think most of the people who were able to do anything has jumped ship (as in off talk.maemo.org/maemo.org) already, not completely unrelated to all the idiotic threads now here, instead of constructive ones..
I'm personally amazed that anyone even continues to come here anymore with the decline of the forums. There are better ways of communication out there that doesn't involve a poor signal to noise ratio.

Originally Posted by tswindell View Post
Yeah, you're skirting the issue as usual. You want something just say and maybe we can move forward. Talking about how everyone, in an ideal world wants everything open is just ridiculous. Do you even know why you want _all_ the components opened?
Probably because he thinks everything will be solved the moment things are open sourced. Which isn't the case. Heck I think hildon-desktop is open source now, why doesn't everyone complaining about how hildon-desktop wasn't open source fix it (if it is open source now?).Though I'm one of those people who believe in open sourcing everything (mainly for transparency).

And personally an abandoned project with open source code is better than an abandoned project with no open-source code (abandoned as in Nokia in the future has no future plans for support). At least you have a starting point (whether it be learning how it works yourself, hiring a developer to do it for you, etc..)
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
They're maemo and MeeGo...

"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...

Last edited by Laughing Man; 2010-08-17 at 12:42.
 

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