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2009-01-09
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Not me... I'm more annoyed that there haven't been bigger and more substantial improvements in the OS updates. Just look at webkit-eal. Awesome, and yet it should have come from Nokia, IMHO. An OS update can really re-energize a platform (just look at iPhone 1.0 -> 2.0) but think back to OS2005->OS2006 on the 770 or OS2007->OS2008 on the N800 and ask yourself what was updated that totally made you look at the tablet in a new light? Home screen applets? Google Talk video chat that doesn't work with desktops? Yes, users make their own apps to fill those gaps, but they don't integrate tightly into the tablet's main user experience (e.g., what about putting Mplayer code *in* the Media Player so I can play .flv with a freakin' timeline?) and it makes us feel like we're the only ones trying to push it forward.
And why closing bugs as "Fixed in Fremantle" is so bloody frustrating.
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2009-01-09
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(e.g., what about putting Mplayer code *in* the Media Player so I can play .flv with a freakin' timeline?)
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2009-01-09
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2009-01-09
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And don't get obsessed because you are going to be impressed by Fremantle and are going to be impressed by Harmattan as well.
About the devices to come with Maemo inside... trust Nokia. B) If you liked the progress 770 --> N800 --> N810 you are probably going to love what comes next.
I am afraid that something similar can happen regarding the N900. when it comes out, a significant part of us moved to different platforms. It is cheaper to keep existing customers than to gain new ones.
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2009-01-09
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2009-01-09
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Why is it not suitable for these improvements to come from the community? Part of Nokia's goal with this platform is to foster a strong community, so when that community outpaces Nokia in certain areas, it smells to me like success, and not the failure so many people want to make it out to be.
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2009-01-09
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Well, 7710 was ... I tried using one as my phone for a weekend. I wouldn't call it a good phone. It was on many levels ahead of its time. But the same as I wouldn't call the Apple Newton a good PDA. They were advanced for their time period, but ... I would say that something is a good device if I can give it to my girlfriend and she would use it happily, and those devices would not pass her test.
Hindsight is 20/20, but at the time when Series 90 got merged with S60, it wasn't really generally obvious that touch would rule. PDA:s had had touch screens for a long time and they never really picked up. Then again, at the same time when this was happening the organisation behind Maemo was starting to function.
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2009-01-09
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It's hard to feel like Nokia's fostering a strong community when it bases the hardware and portions of the OS on closed-source or proprietary specs.
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2009-01-09
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Regarding that "step" discussion, and the future for the tablets in general, take a look at an Interview with Anssi Vanjoki:
http://www.mobile-review.com/article...anssi-en.shtml
The rest of the interview is also quite interesting and definitely worth a read.
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Wrong. My Newton keyboard has been used five times, because it was not easier. It's all user interface, baby. Nokia "introduced" a keyboard in the N810, because they know diddly squat about touchscreen user interfaces. Then again, neither does Job's Apple...
These days, everybody seems to think that a touchscreen UI is just a WIMP with an invisible mouse pointer. I blame the schools; kids just don't get an education anymore.
Watch out Nokia, Pandora's box has opened (sorta)...
I do love explaining cryptic sigs, but for the impatient: http://www.openpandora.org/