On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius@xxxxxx> 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 > -- Sure, they "say" it, after you've already bought the thing and are on a mailing list and a discussion such as this comes up, but NOWHERE in the sales literature or at any sales point that I've seen does it say that. That little morsel is *not* freely disseminated. Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
