[maemo-developers] Future development

[From: Richard Booth]

Hi 

Ok. I just thought including a SIM slot, means more restrictions,
otherwise if there was no disadvantage to the openness of the device,
there would be a SIM slot already? 

Hopefully I've misunderstood. It would be ironic for Nokia to be
successful with tablets using unlocked devices running Linux, Maemo
etc, then go and lock the platform down and take away everything that
made it.

Rich

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:17:43 -0400
vpunkka at netscape.net wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think you are reading Ari incorrectly, if you imply from his blog
> post that just including a SIM in a device makes it more restricted.
> I think the difference does not lie in between the devices that have
> SIMs and the devices that do not have SIMs, but rather between the
> people that wish to put Linux to existing devices with SIMs and
> people that want to build new devices that are based on Linux and may
> or may not have SIMs.
> 
> Veikko
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Booth <richard.booth at bigfoot.com>
> To: maemo-developers at maemo.org
> Sent: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 9:29 pm
> Subject: Future development
> Hi
> 
> I read a reasonable review of the N810 here,
> http://stuff.tv/blogs/future/archive/2007/10/17/hands-on-with-the-nokia-n810.aspx
> 
> I'm about to have a go at maemo development, but I have question about
> the future and openness to develop. The review linked above, touches
> on the possibility of a SIM version in the future. Hypothetically
> speaking, if Nokia go down the road of a SIM version, does this mean
> development and use of a tablet would become restricted, as blogged by
> Ari Jaaksi, http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_archive.html
> 
> Or does it mean the 3G bit would be sand boxed with an interface to
> use it, and everything else would be open as it is now on the N800/
> N810?
> 
> Rich