Thread: A little confuised on the N900/Maemo haters... please explain.
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2011-02-09 , 14:09
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First of all I dont want to start an argument either i'm just commenting on from MY perspective.

I have noticed that many people who dislike the N900 was because of the "lack of apps" - now I can understand if they were only downloading from the Ovi Store (which I think we all can agree is a joke - it should be renamed to the Ovi Pum and Pop Store). But if you enable repos like maemo.org, -testing, -dev then there's more than enough Apps to choose from.
As you stated above the 'store' is a joke, while this should be one of the main-priorities of the phone.
You can do so much with the N900 but without the 'know-how' you can do so little.

On my N900 for games I have; Angry Birds, Asphalt5, Jurassic Coaster 3D, Descent, DRIVER, SNES Emulator, Duke Nukem 3D, Giant Fighting Robots, Hexen 2, NES emulator, Jagged Alliance, Kroll, N64 Emulator, Need for Speed, Numpty Physics, Oregon Trail, PS2 Emulator (EDIT: Meant to saw PS1), Doom, Quake 2, Quake 3, Lamar Research Flight Simulators, Starcraft, Warcraft II, TuxRace, Wallenstein 3D (I left out the boring ones like chess)
I do agree that there ARE a lot of 'apps' for the N900, but the way how to install these 'apps' are just plain annoying, hard and difficult if you're a user like me who doesn't have the knowledge, time and maybe interest in learning the ways of using the terminal or other code stuff it becomes a big task to do something simple if you compare this to the other OS systems.

When making a product, website or anything with users you normally make usability requirements for different aspects of the user experience.
For each of the five dimensions of usability (the 5Es), you think about how it is reflected in requirements for each of the user-group. The 5Es are:

Effective:
How completely and accurately the work or experience is completed or goals reached
Efficient:
How quickly this work can be completed
Engaging:
How well the interface draws the user into the interaction and how pleasant and satisfying it is to use
Error Tolerant:
How well the product prevents errors and can help the user recover from mistakes that do occur
Easy to Learn:
How well the product supports both the initial orientation and continued learning throughout the complete lifetime of use

Based on these Es there are some missing links if I look from the user-group i'm in.
This doesn't mean the N900 is bad at all, Its just not the right phone for some people(like me).

Thats why I think some people are disappointed with the phone thus hating it for not being the phone they want it to be and to be stuck for it for 1 or 2 years.

For me on the other hands its sort of and love/hate relationship. In somethings its just better then for example an iPhone where you have to buy an app for every single action you want to do.
But as stated above on an iPhone you can easily get a new app without the hassle of going into terminal and tossing codes around.

Taking all this into consideration its just about what you want from a phone and how you want it.
In the end the user is always the one to make a phone good or not.
 

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