[maemo-users] Nokia device usage

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:48:26AM -0700, Mark wrote:
> 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:
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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
-- 
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
                -- Albert Einstein
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