Thread: Firmware 1.3 on its way????
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2010-10-19 , 09:53
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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
The RSS feed reader, for example, is in fact free software. People can change it to "scratch their itches" - at least I did.
Bug 8002 - which made the RSS reader widget unusable for anyone with a limited data plan - was apparently fixed on the 9th of Feburary 2010, in "osso-rss-feed-reader 1.8.03-3+0m5". The fix was unavailable to end users - even end users like me willing to enable unsupported repositories, install dev tools and build our own packages - until the release of PR 1.2, months later. The only source code I can find for it is on Gitorious, which hasn't been touched since 2009. Not exactly encouraging, is it?

you can replace the media player, you can write a new mail widget... Those are applications, not the OS, right? You wouldn't judge Microsoft Windows by the quality of MS Paint.)
But nobody wants to re-implement an entire media player to fix one bug or add one feature. Sure, there are a few efforts in that direction, but they're not really up to scratch (yet?), are they? I think it's fair to just Microsoft Windows by the quality of Explorer and there are plenty of itchy Maemo components that are about as replaceable as Windows Explorer.

If what Nokia achieves is still (after so many years!) the best you get on the market, they must be doing something right.
That's what's so frustrating: they get so much right, but seem unwilling or unable to learn from their successes.

[edit] Just wanted to add: the existence of multiple 3rd-party Maemo apps with their own, independently developed, portrait on-screen-keyboards speaks volumes about the ability to scratch itches in Maemo.
Last edited by cibyr; 2010-10-19 at 10:02.
 

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