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2010-09-03 , 19:38
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
I'm going to let my inner-a**hole hang out for a moment...

All I see is a bunch of undelivered, yet implicit, promises that a lot of folks around here somehow fell for (Nokia Reality Distortion Field?) and those that did not fall for it, they attack.

Those that still believe in it - they attack everything else.

Yet... I don't see very much to persuade me to believe in a damn thing they believe in. "It's the most open"... show me. I don't see 1/10th of the activity in terms of OS level hacks and development than I see at XDA-Developers. I mean, I just replaced the whole friggin' file system (RFS) to EXT4 and upped my entire speed on my Captivate.

I don't see 3D engines and apps. I see... well nothing.

For an open playing field, not much of anything is going on. PR1.2 and... that's it.

Instead of attacking, prove me wrong. Meanwhile, I'll be over here putting Android on my iPhone and modifying the living daylights out of my Captivate... there's a new Froyo firmware leaked out and I have to reverse my lag fix and revert from EXT4 before I do that.

Or I might go to a plain vanilla (sans TouchWiz) firmware and enjoy the lack of Samsung induced bloat.

I got real friggin' options. I don't see too many on the N900 besides sit... and wait... and hope.

And attack.

</inner a**hole>
Wow, I was just being rhetorical. ...but yeah. I don't understand the defensiveness. I've said it all along--I've had an N800 and was looking for reason to buy into the next Maemo (so far, remaining unconvinced) and now it's all about MeeGo. In the meantime, Maemo's been ABOUT as open as Android (less so, near as I can tell) and so I don't see anything that convinced me that it was a platform that proved itself (not just words) to be any better. In my itch to get something new, I ended up getting a Dell Mini9 and a Motorola Droid in lieu of the next thing from Nokia and I'm increasingly glad I did. ...Every... Day. Still, I hold out and hope for something more along the lines of a true and open "like the desktop experience" Linux platform but in the meantime, the experience with Android has begun to convince me that maybe I don't need it or maybe that simple being OPEN is the key (not necessarily the desktop experience Linux).

I don't know, but it just seems to me that the defensiveness of folks around here isn't helping to convince me that Nokia's offerings are any better. Some evidence and delivered goods would, but certainly not the "It's the best thing I've ever used! You're an ***hole for disagreeing!' arguments.

So anyway, yeah. Synchronicity. I'm right there with you.
Last edited by danramos; 2010-09-03 at 19:41.
 

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