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2010-01-28
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2010-01-28
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(hint: look at the big picture and try to figure out what 5 steps are about)
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2010-01-28
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Oh right, that was your point, that we're 4 out of 5 steps of the way in, with 3 OS rewrites behind us and a fourth to come with a new and completely different UI? Yes, this Maemo lark is all going absolutely swimmingly!
Any surprise then, that the "big picture" is one of ordinary end users (and even developers) avoiding Maemo while it remains in a constant state of development flux, with few credible apps (Maemo has a few hundred after FIVE years, Android 20,000+ after 2 years and iPhone 100,000 after 3 years - work it out).
I guess you think it's all going to come together in step 5? Well, maybe it will, I hope it does, but step 4 should be a damned site closer to "complete" than it is right now if that is going to happen.
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2010-01-28
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I don't think that you seem to get what I was saying.
If you really have done your share of waiting, then just bail out. That shouldn't be so hard, all that is required is not to buy any Maemo devices anymore.
Of course this is unfortunate but one (big corporation) can't please everyone. Nokia has its own plans and if you don't like what they're doing you have 2 choices: spent your money anyway and be miserable or don't spend money and be happier.
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2010-01-28
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2010-01-28
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Trust me, the only thing Nokia and Maemo has going for it is it's open-ness - if Apple mobile devices didn't have all the restrictions we know them to have I'm pretty sure most of us wouldn't be here and would instead be all over Apple products like a rash. Same with Android, although to a lesser extent.
The one trick Nokia has up it's sleeve is the open platform it is pushing, we want that to succeed so much - no really, we do - that over the last 5 years we've overlooked the poor out-of-box experience, under developed stock applications and complete lack of services. After 5 years, and with only an improved out-of-box experience to really speak of, is it too much for you to understand that some of us are coming to the end of our tether?
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2010-01-28
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Why? Do you think that magically thousands of Qt apps will appear for a brand new never before seen UI? Who is going to be developing all of these apps, the handful of long in the tooth developers we are blessed with in this community? Dream on!
But imagine what it would be for people who are afraid of computers. It's a computer that is as easy to use as an iPhone, and the iPhone has a reputation for being easy. So Apple is using the iPhone reputation to bring a computer to the masses, that would otherwise not even consider getting a netbook. And guess what, these people don't care about DRM. They are the big cash cow for Apple and the content industry. No offense to the computer-illiterate people, but they will happily buy anything DRM without even considering googling for a free or cheaper alternative.
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