I particularly like the thread title, "Apple Legal Reportedly Hinders Reporter's Investigation of iPods Catching Fire". Some of the comments in this thread are hilarious, especially #4.

That was excellent; I'm still laughing.

But dude, be careful, that forum is a vortex. First you're just looking for information about what's in the latest beta release, the next thing you know bottom feeding teenagers have stolen two hours of your life with threads like this. I think Satan uses the handle "babyjenniferLB" on that site. And sometimes "Cassie." The apocalypse is drawing nigh.

Kind of back on topic: Competition is good, but I'm taking a cautious stance for the time being as everyone is jockeying for position. The big players seem to be bringing their A games (Android, WebOS, iPhone OS, Nokia?, WinMo?, Moblin?) and we should all be winners in the end, but Maemo 5 is still vaporware, and I think there's gonna be a plethora of new offerings by year end. In the meantime, I have plenty of skills to solidify as this drama plays out. Or maybe it's just my drama. Regardless, it's a good time for tech, but that is usually accompanied by a certain amount of snake oil. Cool heads prevail; not including Steve Jobs.

Ooh, it's going to be so much fun here when Maemo goes mainstream!

Its okay, this it the first time I'v been stationed overseas and it really isnt that bad... although i will say, due to this being a remote tour and having a different mission (not really free to rome around fully... North Korea ) it can be a bit of a drag. but the culture is nice and places to go are interesting enough


Thanks for asking

Yay hope so! We need more trolls!

There's enough trolls here already.

As it stands, the pointing fingers at the "other camps" and other snobbish **** is what drives communities into "us or them" type of mentality and it's pretty horrific when it happens.

I support 5 different OS's on a daily basis: OS X, Win2k3 Server, Win2k8 Server, Red Hat Fedora and HP-UX... thank god I don't suffer with AIX any more after last month. Anyway, I'm not so faithful to any OS, they all work once you learn them.

Slagging off some clear n00bs, yeah... that's a way to win. Face it, you love Maemo to death. That's fine too. But sheesh, looking down your noses you tend to forget how flawed Maemo is. Repositories go down - remember when Canola 2 came out? Down. And there's other countless times.

Hell, we've had neophytes come here and the tone was downright nasty from certain people. And with the "sister site" (ok, I never used it) going down, at this rate, I'd tell people to stay the hell away from Maemo unless they want to geek it up for a while and actually learn something. I have my share of people asking me stupid iPhone questions when they see that I have one. I just had somebody ask me how to put music on it - no joke.

But I've seen nothing that states that the openness of Maemo is a sure-shot winner either. Hell, they can't even keep paid for products up-to-date. Let alone, provide a worthwhile alternative that doesn't require obscure repositories or 18 steps to get a possible beta IM program to work right once a change happens in either a server or protocol.

In short, once Maemo goes mainstream; I hope some of you people actually help them instead of look down your nose at them. I'll do my part.... which ain't much.

I think understand what you're saying. That actually might have been the first time I've used that expression. Really. But I generally don't get out much and I'm a creature of habit; I'm usually not trying to find out how the other half lives 'cause I've been there/done that. I'm old. So, if you are similar, or you're just looking for adventure, I invite you to spend some of your quality time at forums such as the one I linked to, and you might surprise yourself at what you could get the hang of.