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2010-12-10 , 11:03
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Originally Posted by turbowei View Post
I dont know how many people really care about their phone being Open, but I can bet they are not even the majority of folks who purchased n900.

Open source zealots, please get off your high horses, and smell the coffee. There are far too many great close sourced alternatives in the market.

A phone/OS without close sourced apps is a zombie. Look at the great linux. Two critical pieces are close sourced. Skype and Flash, without which the only linux desktop users are left would be RMS himself.

And for a much more consumer driven device like a phone, the key for its success is app. As long as you have great apps for the platform, few people care about it being 'open source' or 'close source'.
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Originally Posted by kureyon View Post
When they introduced the N770 wasn't it part of Nokia's long-term strategy to eventually add phone features to it? I sure hope that it didn't come about because some bright spark woke up in the morning and suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought "well we got the N810 and we make phones, how about adding phone capabilities to the N810 and call it the N900?"

Seriously, if they can overcome the objections of the beancounters (or whoever decides these things) to fund, develop and market the N770/N800/N810 then how hard would it be to do the same for the N900 which, you know, contains a phone, and phones are supposedly one of Nokia's core competencies and a major source of income.
OK... the ONLY thing that really jumped out at me about what you said was N770. Twice you said it. I will have you know that Nokia never made an N770. Never. They did, however, make a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet long ago, but there wasn't an 'N' prefix to it. Twice. I'm just pointing out how silly people look when they keep saying N770 all over the Maemo forum. You would think people in this forum actually knew the models better. There weren't a whole lot of models to remember. Twice.
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2010-12-10 , 11:39
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
I'm just pointing out how silly people look when they keep saying N770 all over the Maemo forum. You would think people in this forum actually knew the models better.
My apologies for assuming that Nokia has the common sense for a consistent naming scheme. Once again it shows their fickleness

Anyway I've never used any of the N900 predecessors since I reckon the Sharp Zaurus is a better piece of kit.
 

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Originally Posted by kureyon View Post
My apologies for assuming that Nokia has the common sense for a consistent naming scheme. Once again it shows their fickleness

Anyway I've never used any of the N900 predecessors since I reckon the Sharp Zaurus is a better piece of kit.
heh.. Be sure to know that when I say/think/write that kind of smarmy material, I'm posturing with a smirk and a bit of a laugh. Wasn't meant to be particularly nasty--just find it amusing to see a Maemo forum where the very few devices it ever ran on are mis-named. Thanks for taking that in good stride, too.
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I do, in fact, have one Linux computer without either Flash or Skype. It's the N900. Nokia put some sort of Skype on it, but I have never logged into it.
And presumably you also deleted the Flash plugin Nokia included?
 

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