<div>I'm with you: i put a grand and a half of nokia products in my pocket every day (n95 8gb + n810 + bluetooth gps, headset, headphones, etc) and nokia can kiss me and my gadget budget goodbye unless i get what i want: a phone that behaves like my laptop, on which i can install any app i want (open or closed source, free or commericial), for which i can write real first class apps (not python scripts) which i can distribute to thers without having to jump through stupid "signing" hoops. I'm not a hippy: i'm willing to PAY for this, and i'm sick and tired of marketroids telling me why i can't have it (the carriers won't allow it. the manufacturers won't allow it. it's for your own good, just bend over and spread 'em). The n810 had me fooled - i dreamed of a world where nokia realized the futility of fighting the iPhone by slapping a layer of touch-screen lipstick on the symbian pig. </div>
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<div>Guess that pig's more of a cash cow than i thought. </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 7:47 PM, mathew <<a href="mailto:meta@pobox.com">meta@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">Aniello Del Sorbo wrote:<br>> I think that what Ari wanted too say is that Nokia and the industry in<br>> general is not YET ready to work the way the open source community<br>> wants them to.<br>
><br></div>Well, goodbye then Nokia. We'll all switch to OpenMoko or Android.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> I read his wording this way: "we want to listen and we are listening<br>> and actually even doing steps towards those open source rules. But the<br>> community asks too much and too fast.<br>
> We listen and act. You do the same."<br>><br><br></div>I don't buy DRM-crippled media and won't buy a phone I can't unlock and<br>do what I want with. If that means I never buy another Nokia phone, so<br>
be it.<br><br>I loved my Nokia back in the 90s, but the company really lost its way,<br>producing a succession of really lousy "fashion" phone designs that were<br>totally impractical, and failing to realize that quad band and Bluetooth<br>
were de rigeur for a business phone. I thought the N series showed that<br>they had gotten a clue, but this stupid comment--by their VP of open<br>source, no less--really has me wondering.<br><font color="#888888"><br><br>
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