Active Topics
-
[HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9 (1,580)
to Nokia N9 / N950 by aspergerguy - 4 hrs ago -
Nokia N9-00 Prototype Build S1.12 (RM-680 codename "Dali") (250)
to Nokia N9 / N950 by en0s - 3 days ago -
[Announce] Maebble - Pebble support for Maemo (118)
to Applications by glo-worm - 3 days, 12 hrs ago -
Possible to flash Leste to eMMC? (6)
to Maemo 7 / Leste by Eri - 4 days, 2 hrs ago - more...
 |
|
2009-01-09
, 23:18
|
|
Posts: 4,672 |
Thanked: 5,455 times |
Joined on Jul 2008
@ Springfield, MA, USA
|
#112
|
Originally Posted by chlettn
Meanwhile, everyone that has seen me enjoy my N800 has either gone out and bought one as well or has been asking if whether they should wait for the next new one.
The point is that no carrier would offer something like the OpenMoko in its current state - you basically can't sell it to people who are not totally into tinkering/modding stuff. Can you imagine the return rates among "normal" people?
"Openness" isn't marketable to the broad masses, since they simply don't care about it. If anything, the iPhone shows that pretty clearly at the moment.
As recently as a couple of days ago, a friend out of Boston was asking me whether he should get an N810, an iPod Touch or wait for the next thing from Nokia. I can't, in honesty, recommend an iPod Touch--either get an iPod or an iPhone. touch.. ugh. But then there's the N810.. or the next thing. How can I, in all good conscience, tell him that he should wait on the next Nokia device? How can I recommend the N810, seeing as how we're already being led out to pasture now?
He's not a geek but he likes technology. He wasn't interested in the openness, necessarily.. he just wanted to have what he's seen me have--a pretty good experience. I'm also very likely to be the person he'll call for support and with questions. Then there's my very ungeeky sister (doesn't want to hack at all) who now has the N800 and she seems to love it despite the limitations that I feel it has.
If you take a good, open and hackable product and just use it (ie: you're not a geeky hacker) , you can still have a very useful product so long as it's also designed well for someone to just pick it up and use it. Being open just means that people like me can recommend or even write really great apps for people like them. iPhone and iPod is only evidence of marketing genious (think: Cabbage Patch Kids back in 1984) and word-of-mouth (think Commodore 64 back in 1984), not of the success or lack of openness (think: Apple back in 1984).
| The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to danramos For This Useful Post: | ||
 |
|
2009-01-09
, 23:20
|
|
Posts: 5,478 |
Thanked: 5,222 times |
Joined on Jan 2006
@ St. Petersburg, FL
|
#113
|
Originally Posted by danramos
Nokia believes OMAP2 support for Maemo 5 on the community level is more viable than providing official support, and having learned a thing or two about Nokia's structure and methodology, and having seen what's in store for Maemo 5, I agree with them.
Everytime I see 'fixed in Freemantle', I get the distinct feeling that this translates to, 'WON'T FIX', since it sounds like I won't be seeing it on my Nokia N800 and, given my experience so far, I'm pretty willing to let another brand convince me that they might be better at supporting their own product and being more open.
To this end, Nokia is providing the community with (rather unprecedented) support in through stuff like binary relicensing and active developer assistance (among other things).
Originally Posted by danramos
Nokia always has (and still is) pushing very hard for more open hardware, but it's not a battle you win overnight, and not one, unfortunately, that they can freely publicize.
I'm not sure I understand why it would be unrealistic.
__________________
Ryan Abel
Ryan Abel
Last edited by GeneralAntilles; 2009-01-09 at 23:38.
| The Following User Says Thank You to GeneralAntilles For This Useful Post: | ||
|
|
2009-01-09
, 23:20
|
|
Posts: 4,672 |
Thanked: 5,455 times |
Joined on Jul 2008
@ Springfield, MA, USA
|
#114
|
Originally Posted by allnameswereout
How many of those people returned it because they couldn't run their copy of some Windows applications on it? I'm not sure that it relates very well to the mobile phone market and Internet tablet market as well as you might think.
Yup, I can. EEe with Linux are returned 5 against 1 with XP. Then again, Openmoko never marketed Freerunner for the general public. Neither did Nokia with 770, N800 or N810.
|
|
2009-01-09
, 23:23
|
|
Posts: 4,672 |
Thanked: 5,455 times |
Joined on Jul 2008
@ Springfield, MA, USA
|
#115
|
Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles
I agree, but it's also a battle they can sidestep, given their reputation and weight in the mobile market, with the decision to shop around for component manufacturers who were willing to join them in making a much more open Internet Tablet platform. I'm not saying it would be any easier, I'm just saying that it's not unrealistic.
Nokia always has (and still is) pushing very hard for more open hardware, but it's not a battle you win overnight, and not one, unfortunately, that they can freely publicize.
 |
|
2009-01-09
, 23:24
|
|
Posts: 2,535 |
Thanked: 6,681 times |
Joined on Mar 2008
@ UK
|
#116
|
Originally Posted by danramos
Does such a mobile device exist? Do they provide an OS image for your N800?
Everytime I see 'fixed in Freemantle', I get the distinct feeling that this translates to, 'WON'T FIX', since it sounds like I won't be seeing it on my Nokia N800 and, given my experience so far, I'm pretty willing to let another brand convince me that they might be better at supporting their own product and being more open.
Ignoring the "your N800 won't get any worse when RX-51 and Fremantle are released" arguments; elements of Fremantle are already being backported onto an Ubuntu + Diablo base to give Mer. This is true community ownership, and a promising future for N800 and N810 owners.
Besides, you could always try and get your karma up and hope there'll be a Device Discount Programme ;-)
__________________
Andrew Flegg -- mailto:andrew@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org
Andrew Flegg -- mailto:andrew@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org
| The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Jaffa For This Useful Post: | ||
|
|
2009-01-09
, 23:35
|
|
Posts: 5,478 |
Thanked: 5,222 times |
Joined on Jan 2006
@ St. Petersburg, FL
|
#117
|
Originally Posted by danramos
It's also a battle that has already borne fruit.
I agree, but it's also a battle they can sidestep, given their reputation and weight in the mobile market, with the decision to shop around for component manufacturers who were willing to join them in making a much more open Internet Tablet platform.
Texas Instruments has greatly increased openness and become very active in the Linux development for OMAP3. ST-NXP Wireless released the specs for the WiFi chips in the N800 and N810, which resulted in an open source WiFi driver.No, we're not there yet, but you can hardly accuse Nokia of neglecting this issue.
Originally Posted by danramos
Nothing's totally unrealistic, but you have to balance getting a product to market and making money (which gives you more leverage in the future to push the open agenda) and sticking to your guns, never actually shipping anything and helping nobody.
I'm not saying it would be any easier, I'm just saying that it's not unrealistic.
Idealism is all well and good, but this is the real world we live in where everything can't be black and white. Would you really rather there had been no tablets at all if the hardware hadn't been 100% open?
__________________
Ryan Abel
Ryan Abel
|
|
2009-01-09
, 23:50
|
|
Posts: 4,672 |
Thanked: 5,455 times |
Joined on Jul 2008
@ Springfield, MA, USA
|
#118
|
Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles
True enough, credit to them for that.. but I can't help this nagging sense that I still won't see these mystical improevments. Like I said about the WiMax roll-outs, "I'll believe it when I see it." I hear there are people with WiMax.. but I still haven't seen it. It might as well not exist, for all the coverage it's rolled out so far. I'm getting this same sense here. I really hope I'll be proven wrong. Be ready to tell me you told me so if I end up being satisfied after all.
It's also a battle that has already borne fruit.
No, we're not there yet, but you can hardly accuse Nokia of neglecting this issue.
Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles
Certainly not--but it doesn't stop me from whining just the same as the end-user that just wants to actually and finally OWN the product I'd bought.
Idealism is all well and good, but this is the real world we live in where everything can't be black and white. Would you really rather there had been no tablets at all if the hardware hadn't been 100% open?
| The Following User Says Thank You to danramos For This Useful Post: | ||
|
|
2009-01-10
, 03:00
|
|
Posts: 101 |
Thanked: 8 times |
Joined on Mar 2007
|
#119
|
times back to top -
Will the new N900 wait until after the presentation (Rollout) of N97 ????
And that means - earlier in Q4/2009 a N900 ???
Last edited by frank.wagner; 2009-01-10 at 03:06.
Will the new N900 wait until after the presentation (Rollout) of N97 ????
And that means - earlier in Q4/2009 a N900 ???
http://www.mobile-review.com/article...anssi-en.shtml
Does the launch of touch-based phones spell the end for Nokia’s Internet tables?
A.V. Definitely not. We know the Touch technology inside out because we introduced the first product of this kind back in 2004 (Nokia 7710) and if you look at the Internet tablet segment, it’s not dying at all, on the contrary – it’s our future. I remember saying at some launch even that it would take five generations of the Internet tablet devices to really make them mass consumer products – so far, we have launched only three generations and the fourth is in the making at this very moment, based on the Maemo software that is written for touch-based products, so it’s a very important asset for us.
Last edited by frank.wagner; 2009-01-10 at 03:06.
|
|
2009-01-10
, 03:41
|
|
Posts: 2,802 |
Thanked: 4,491 times |
Joined on Nov 2007
|
#120
|
Originally Posted by allnameswereout
In relative terms? Asus say that the return rate is similar, so if the above figure is correct it means they sell 5 times as many Linux eees as XP ones.
Yup, I can. EEe with Linux are returned 5 against 1 with XP.
Then again, most pre-installed Linux distros on netbooks I've seen deserve to be returned :-|
 |
| Tags |
| blurry photos, fud, funny farm, haiku, hibernation, not the droids, picnic baskets, straightjacket, trollosaurus rex, what competition? |
«
Previous Thread
|
Next Thread
»
|
All times are GMT. The time now is 20:24.
Goosfraba! All text written by allnameswereout is public domain unless stated otherwise. Thank you for sharing your output!