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2009-10-03
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i have one question for those who see this as a bad move.
would you rather swirl or pinch?
would you rather swirl or pinch?
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2009-10-03
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Originally Posted by legendemeritus
neither. give me a hardware button for zooming in and out - oh! we already have that. next question, please.
would you rather swirl or pinch?
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2009-10-03
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how long have you been stuck in the 80s?
Last edited by legendemeritus; 2009-10-03 at 13:29.
Last edited by legendemeritus; 2009-10-03 at 13:29.
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2009-10-03
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Originally Posted by legendemeritus
2½ years.
how long have you been stuck in the 60s?
next question, please.
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2009-10-03
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Originally Posted by benny1967
sorry i changed the question slightly
2½ years.
next question, please.
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2009-10-03
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Wow, the way everybody's going about how an Apple executive will taint Maemo as a whole makes me incredulous.
Do you think a corporaton and its directions and strategies are so neboulous that one excutive willc hange it all in a flash ?
Secondly what gives that an Apple excutive will make Maemo more Apple like ? Nokia must have selected him based on certain merits and qualifications - and not necesarily to make Maemo more Apple like ? Apart from changing the way Maemo's openness is , there may be othere ways he can bring some positives - like in the Marketing dept and how to position the N900 to consumers .. etc etc.
I think all this talk about "oh, now we are tainted" is just reflexive Apple hatred creeping in. At least as a eye opener look at how Apple executives did manage to change Palm for the positive (granted Palm never set out to do an open OS).
Do you think a corporaton and its directions and strategies are so neboulous that one excutive willc hange it all in a flash ?
Secondly what gives that an Apple excutive will make Maemo more Apple like ? Nokia must have selected him based on certain merits and qualifications - and not necesarily to make Maemo more Apple like ? Apart from changing the way Maemo's openness is , there may be othere ways he can bring some positives - like in the Marketing dept and how to position the N900 to consumers .. etc etc.
I think all this talk about "oh, now we are tainted" is just reflexive Apple hatred creeping in. At least as a eye opener look at how Apple executives did manage to change Palm for the positive (granted Palm never set out to do an open OS).
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2009-10-03
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10 years then. next question, please.
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2009-10-03
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Originally Posted by benny1967
Benny, you do realise that if Nokia doesnt make a profit from the device and, even then the n900 is dead.
the only good thing we should hope for is that we can keep this open platform the way it is - because enough people will like it the way we do. if they don't, there's no way to save it.
This is the whole balancing act of open source being used by corporations - to make a profit from an open platform by selling something on top of it (the open platform). Its not some charity and open source ideologue that Nokia is out to prove to the world. It doesn't work that way.
As must as we cherish open source and open source ideology, it has to earn the bread at the end of the day - and the two need not be mutually exclusive either.
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2009-10-03
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Originally Posted by nilchak
you mean like... - what? a broken distribution system for 3rd party apps? (there's a thread about it somewhere here)
look at how Apple executives did manage to change Palm for the positive
no distribution at all outside america?
increasing losses?
oh...
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