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2011-03-11 , 01:24
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Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
OK so diversity is good and fragmentation is bad?
Where did this "fragmentation" nonsense come from? Oh right, people who championed the utter homogeneity of the iPhone platform.

I don't see the differense, only different semantics. Diversity is not bad per se, but when it makes everyone (re)inventing the core wheels over and over again, it is not good for business.
Who said this was only about business? How the hell are you going to force people who have zero obligation to you, to give up their ideas and work on something else? Who chooses the winners?

Diversity in apps is good for business, diversity in core components is not, not if you want diversity in apps.
Generally, of course, from the Linux perspective it's not an issue because the application software is open source. MeeGo is attempting to provide a standardized base for proprietary things to target.

Zimon's point, that you are poorly attempting to use as a base to bash Linux from, is that unless the whole of the open source community gives up on the diversity of their ideas and homogenizes into a singular platform, they are dumb, irrational, wrong, and it's all their fault that Nokia has failed.

Qt will theoretically solve lots of fragmentation problems, but only if Qt is not fragmented.
Why bring Qt up? It's not relevant.

Linux is about making "yet another" - something that does some core functionality. Not better than the others, only different and incompatible with the others.
I get this growing suspicion that you have no idea what you are talking about, and are simply grasping at straws to bash Linux.

Originally Posted by Qrchack View Post
It is huge problem, as you, MaddogG and few others presented before: i bet most of your friends are far smarter then i am (no irony here, really), you don't care about averages and You don't understand them (You don't even try). You don't understand, that for many ppl even running a game on an emulator is to big trouble - because it needs two clicks, not just one. Again, again and again. when u tern your back against them You will loose. As n900 lost. as maemo did.
Your argument is completely off the wall, I honestly cannot follow it. There is no reason you cannot have multiple layers of complexity and capability in a single device. But you insist on attacking people from a point of view that has no real relevance on what is (or presumably once was) a highly technical end-user forum.
Last edited by wmarone; 2011-03-11 at 01:28.
 

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