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2009-10-20
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I follow Om since a long time and he has been writing off Nokia quite a bit of late.
But even in huis articles as of a month back - he wasnt that aware of Maemo as a platform and his sense of Nokia no t doing anything right was based on his knowledge of Nokia as a Symbian power-house.
But in the mainstream media I have seen others also write off Nokia as a first impression.
Apart from Om, his fellow blogger Dave Winer (of RSS fame) has given up on his iPhone a long time , but when suggested the N900 and Maemo as a open platform, he wasn't that warm to it either - as according to him Nokia fails in terms of making things easy and intuitive like the iPhone (even though Dave is objective and doesn't like the iPhone because of its closed nature).
So to many mainstream users the iPhone is a benchmark of what is right with a mobile device - as much as they understand what is wrong with the iPhone and Apple.
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2009-10-21
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2009-10-21
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The funny thing his retraction line at the end where he is defensive and says he doesn't use an iPhone but a Blackberry (which is true - since quite a few months back he gave up on coverage issues with AT&T).
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But even in huis articles as of a month back - he wasnt that aware of Maemo as a platform and his sense of Nokia no t doing anything right was based on his knowledge of Nokia as a Symbian power-house.
But in the mainstream media I have seen others also write off Nokia as a first impression.
Apart from Om, his fellow blogger Dave Winer (of RSS fame) has given up on his iPhone a long time , but when suggested the N900 and Maemo as a open platform, he wasn't that warm to it either - as according to him Nokia fails in terms of making things easy and intuitive like the iPhone (even though Dave is objective and doesn't like the iPhone because of its closed nature).
So to many mainstream users the iPhone is a benchmark of what is right with a mobile device - as much as they understand what is wrong with the iPhone and Apple.