[maemo-users] Nokia device usage

[From: Mark]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Ryan Abel <rabelg5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 5, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Mark wrote:
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>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> 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.
>>>
>>> Marius Gedminas
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>
> --
> Ryan Abel
> Maemo Community Council chair
>
>
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.

Mark