On Thursday, 11 August, 2011 08:53 AM, Holden Hao wrote: > What do you folks think about the N9. It is not yet out but it is set > to be launched before the year ends.
I'd buy it if it weren't a dead end. A real app ecosystem will likely never develop for Meego, now that Stephen Elop has announced his company's sold its soul to the devil and orphaned Meego as part of the deal. While it's supposed to be a true GNU/Linux system that is supposed to be able to run native GNU/Linux apps, the very thought of using applications with interfaces designed with a mouse and keyboard in mind on a touch screen makes me cringe. On a side note, I have no idea why some Nokia apologists out there don't seem to question the wisdom of Elop's maneuvers. The only other alternative they had was to run with Android, and they say that doing so would have made Nokia another "me too" company like Samsung, LG, HTC, and all the rest. But how is going WP7 any different? Samsung, LG, and HTC also make WP7 phones, and going by their dismal sales in comparison to their Android counterparts (it has been said that the patent royalties paid by these Android manufacturers to Microsoft gets them more money than WP7 does!) it seems highly doubtful that Nokia can do any better, unless Microsoft shares with them some secret sauce that they aren't giving to their other WP7 partners, and that seems extremely unlikely to say the least, given that it isn't in Microsoft's interest to hold back on anything they have that might give their platform an edge over iOS and Android. -- You are sick, but now you are well again. And there's work to be done.
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