Originally Posted by viento23

Does our nokia n900 still able to creating a dreams from now?

Originally Posted by Copernicus

For people who have their own dreams, absolutely. In the rest of the smart phone world, the dream of one man -- Steve Jobs -- has become dominant. His view of the world, where all apps are governed by a single "ecosystem" directly under his command; where all user interfaces are minimalist and all users are treated purely as "consumers" of data, never producers; where the device you purchased is locked to an extent that, forget about changing the system software yourself, even directly accessing the internal data storage mechanism is considered a breach of license; this has become what people expect out of a cell phone, and all would-be competitors to Apple have given up and simply taken up Jobs dream as their own.

The N900 is pretty much the last device created that is truly a personal computer in the form factor of a cell phone. If you have your own dream, if you want a cell-phone-like device to work in a way different to how Steve Jobs saw the world, this machine is still your best bet.

Originally Posted by klinglerware

I don't think Apple viewed Microsoft as a competitor back then (after all, they outsourced the development of things like Applesoft BASIC to Microsoft). They thought IBM was the real enemy--that misunderstanding might have played a part in Apple's struggles into the 90s...