Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:48:26AM -0700, Mark wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Ryan Abel <rabelg5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> On Mar 5, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Mark wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius@xxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Overall, the current generations of NITs are far from perfect, but they >>>>> are the best hacker's devices of their size I've ever seen. >>>>> >>>> And *that* is the summary of the state of the tablets: they're *great* >>>> for hackers, but as consumer end-user devices, not so much. >>>> >>> And? This is exactly how Nokia's positioned them, so it sounds like the plan >>> is working really well. >>> >>> >> That is as Benjamin Disraeli would say it, a "damned lie". Your >> unrealistic protests notwithstanding, these things have been and still >> are being sold as consumer devices, and nowhere are they referred to >> as being aimed at hackers. >> > > On several occasions people from Nokia with official-sounding titles > (such as "Vice President") explicitly say that they expect it will take > around five generations for the Internet Tablets to be consumer-ready. > The N810 is 3rd generation. > > I'd provide references if I weren't a lazy bum. > > Marius Gedminas > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > Here is one: "If you look at the Internet tablet segment, it’s not dying at all, on the contrary -- it's our future. I remember saying at some launch even that it would take five generations of the Internet Tablet devices to really make them mass consumer products -- so far, we have launched only three generations and the fourth is in the making at this very moment, based on the Maemo software that is written for touch-based products, so it's a very important asset for us." Taken from http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=14786 - it is apparently a statement made by a Nokia VP. I guess I should have had the foresight to google "five generations consumer ready nokia" before buying my N800 ;) Thanks, Ognen _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
