On Mar 6, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Mark wrote: > 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. > > 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. Yeah, and it also works exactly as advertised in the sales literature. You're grasping for a point, but not making much progress. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
