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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.
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2009-01-09
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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.
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2009-01-09
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2009-01-09
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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.
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2009-01-09
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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.
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2009-01-09
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It's also a battle that has already borne fruit.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.
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?
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2009-01-10
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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.
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