Mark, You can substitute "Motorola cell phones" for "Nokia tablets" and your arguments will remain valid. Hardware is easier than software. julius On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Mark wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Andrew Flegg <andrew@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > John, you wrote: > >> > > [snip] > >> I have to agree with Mark that, implicitly, Nokia misleads the public to > >> the extent that it markets the IT's along side of its other mass market > >> mobile phone devices if, in fact, the IT's are a work in progress (I > >> agree, they are, unfortunately) that will take 5 generations and a few > >> more years to get the product ready for the mass market. > > > > I don't think they're yet ready for the mainstream, but I don't think they're an albatross around the neck of anyone who buys them, as your Amazon figures show: > > > >> N800 > >> 4 stars out of 5 with a sample size of 172 > >> > >> N810 > >> 4 stars out of 5 with a sample size of 93 > > > > Anyway, let's remember the "not ready for mainstream" point... > > > >> Over a period of three years, I can count on one finger the number > >> of individuals besides myself that I have actually seen > >> carrying/using an IT > > > > As you say, the mainstream aren't buying them yet. If they're not ready for the mainstream, that's a good thing, no? > > > > Not really, because as long as they can keep selling them in > relatively small numbers to fanboys they don't have to worry about > supporting them or ever polishing them to the point that they are > living up to their full potential. Do you really think the successors > will be any better? They'll keep updating the hardware, and keep > spending far too little time finishing the software. No generation > will ever be better than the current ones in that respect. > > What good is fantastic hardware without software that can make full use of it? > > The N800 has been discontinued for a while already, and at this point > there's zero chance that I'll ever be able to use the hardware to its > full potential. Nokia has already moved on, and once the next > generation comes out most of the kind and generous developers who are > supplying us with apps for the current crop will move most of their > attention to the new device. They've already said that there will be > zero backwards compatibility with the OS and software because the > hardware is going to be fundamentally different. > > Do you not understand that as long as they keep coming out with new > devices and dropping the old ones there will NEVER be one that is > ready for consumers? In order for a device to be ready for consumers > they have to stand by it long enough to finish the software. > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users >
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