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Further discussion of Nokia's support for Maemo 5 (was: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support)
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ndi
2010-12-10 , 11:23
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That's true, Nokia EOLs phones when they no longer make them and they end up in legacy on the site. Frankly, I find it annoying for a large company to have an open policy of "we only know you if you keep forking cash over to the latest model". It's plain wrong to begin with, plus, latest model is, by definition almost, in beta.
Forever buggy, forever new, forever half dead, incredibly expensive.
No wonder we look over the fence, no wonder we see iMarketShare rise. One model, one year per cycle, the new one beats the old one in every possible way. All efforts go into perfecting. Suddenly, it no longer seems stupid to fork over 1000€. After all, if you don't live for a command line there is little that iStuff doesn't offer. Well, there's that Flash thing. But you know what, iP will work with just about every hardware out there, headsets, handsfree, car kit, even home cinemas. N900 isn't even on the list.
Look at where we are now. Nokia offers an old N900, at end of life, some Symb that truely reaks and a half-born MeeGo that may or may not live and fly, but if it does it'll be a while. We're in purgatory.
So yes, let's start a thread about what Nokia has done good. I already have a list since PR 1.2:
1.3
* MicroB has pop-up menus in portrait
* Partial fix of pulseaudio, which we already had.
Alright, that was cool. Let's see the flip side:
* Still monolithic updates
* Still few fixes
* Still no names for numbers, I keep calling old phones
* Still phone stutters
* Still bugs in Calendar
* Still Brainstorm is a joke
* Still Maps can't offer what a 50$ portable device can
* Still no Office
* Still no PABC
* Still bugs in File Manager (missing items in pop-up)
* Still bugs in Mail
In fact, all Nokia apps have either bugs or silly, easily fixable limitations, save maybe for Backup.
So, which threads will be more frequesnt?
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