Thread: I'm about to let my N900 go because of thumbnailer daemon
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anthonie is offline anthonie
2010-10-10 , 20:35
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But are you claiming that Microsoft or Apple left it up to the users to figure out how to solve problems with their operating systems or their applications?
The reference to Microsoft and Apple was made to state that even mass-ready OS's and devices are not what they are sold like.

How ridiculous to blame the user for not investing days or weeks on developer-oriented forums. The marketing material doesn't require you to be a developer. Why should a buyer then suspect that Nokia requires you to be a developer or at Linux system administrator to get the phone to at least function as a "normal" phone?
Well, perhaps it's just me, but when I intend to spend a third of a months' income to some device, I will definilately do a lot of research first. When I see every review mentioning how cool it is to basically have a linux box in your pocket, I know this is a device I probably want myself and would surely NOT advice anyone else to buy, unless I know that other person is not afraid to get his or her hands dirty. Command line root access, in bold letters to be found all over the net. Does that not mean anything to potential buyers? And if not, should that not be a warning? Oh no, people prefer to look at companies the same they do with politicians: They believe their words and promises, give them a vote of confidence by either voting or buying their products, and then they start complaining that it hurts to be taken from the back without any form of lubrication.

I knew up front about the N97 failure. Yet I did decide to buy the n900 for the obvious reasons. But one thing I did not expect is for everything to work out of the box, despite what Nokia's marketing department may have promised or not. If you did, the word naive is the least offensive one that should be reserved for you.

The only thing that is relevant is that Nokia sells this phone as a smart phone++.
I believe the phrase was "Mobile computer".

And if you do register, Nokia tells you "WONT FIX" for most of the broken things.
And thus the Maemo forum is the place to come and complain about behavior of the company Nokia as a whole? In the same breath stating it's a simple problem to fix...

Nokia tells us about the conversation feature, unifying SMS, IM etc. But doesn't tell us that we can't get individual ring signals depending on contact - that is until someone on this forum added such functinality.
Like I said before... Look around and solutions will magically appear...

Nokia gives us a backup feature from their PC program - but with too large files (such as recorded movies), their backups fails and claims we have to disconnect/reconnect the USB cable. Nothing wrong with the cable interface - just the software that isn't properly handling large files.
Nokia Suite is a joke. And a bad one at that. Something you should be able to tell by the time you find out that it only runs on... Windows
However. if you know your way around the command line, there are plenty of options.

The list of pure stupidities from Nokia can be made extremely long.
True and undeniable fact, already stated by me in my post before.

You are basically saying that it is an end-user problem, and not a problem caused by Nokia. That really is the implication of your statement. And indirectly, that means you are on Nokias side, and not on the N900 owners side.
It is. But not for the reasons you mentioned. And it does not mean either, that Nokia is NOT to blame. However, you seem to expect a worlleading company to sell it's devices with big "not-ready for ya fokes jus yet" labels on them...