[maemo-users] Nokia device usage

[From: Mark]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> 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 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
> --

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.

Mark