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Originally Posted by aflegg View Post
However, I'd strongly discourage Nokia from starting any new closed system, with a clique of power users beta testing; potentially waving their knowledge and access under the noses of "lesser" users.

Ubuntu manages a well produced system with open betas, and we've already established numerous times that multi-platform end-user desktop OSes are "harder" than IT OS releases for two (well, one supported) hardware configurations. If Canonical can organise this in an open fashion, and deal with the end-user complaints about it "not being ready", why couldn't Nokia?
No glib answer here... but lest we forget, unique proprietary hardware is involved and that complicates things. As we see with the SD cards, damage from bugs can be very real. A power user will be irritated but at the same time understand the complexity and participate in solutions; "lesser" users will rant and little more (not saying it isn't their right, but...). So I can understand why Nokia would open betas for browsers and other separable apps and keep firmware testing limited. Like zero noted.
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