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2009-04-26
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Krisse, how about those of us who don't want a cellphone but want a pocketable device with 800x480 resolution? You throwin' us to the wolves?
Also, don't you think Nokia wants to compete with the iPod touch?
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2009-04-26
, 21:58
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At the moment, the vast vast majority of the pocket computer market is made up of phones and smartphones, and the rest is media players, games consoles, navigators, PDAs and ebook readers. If you make a pocket computer that isn't any of these things, it will almost certainly fail commercially.
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2009-04-26
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2009-04-26
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If Nokia offered the Tablet with Personal Menu, containing a good subset of what I currently have there, it would obviously and successfully fill all those categories. Who then would want to carry all those different devices individually? It already is my ebook reader, game console, navigator, and (except when I want something tiny) media player.
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2009-04-26
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...but it isn't your phone, and that's the problem.
If you want it to be an all-in-one gadget, it has to include telephony.
Trying to be an all-in-one gadget without including telephony is not going to work, because that's the most-used function of pocket gadgets.
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2009-04-26
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@ Boone, IA
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#167
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2009-04-26
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#168
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The problem with bundling things for out-of-the-box is that it dramatically changes the requirements for the software (mostly for the worse).
Trust me, you don't want Nokia's grubby fingers all over the community cookie jar.
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2009-04-26
, 23:29
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@ North Texas, USA
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OK, I see all the Thanks! at the bottom of your post, but I don't "get" it.
You sort of throw these two points out there, then ramble a bit about manufacturing and losing your job (which is interesting to read, but doesn't really give me any clue to what's prompted you to write the quoted text).
So, do you mind elaborating a bit on exactly what it is that you see them losing?
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2009-04-26
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My (admittedly limited) knowledge of what Maemo SW is trying to do with Maemo 5 suggests that Maemo continues to push closer to an OS on which this kind of application can be developed easily and without hacking, rather than farther away...
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