Oct
10
2009
Maemo 6 Announced | sporting multi-touch on capacitive displays
Posted in Maemo 5, Maemo 6, N900, Nokia, Nseries
Nokia has announced a whole new concept when looking at the UI of Maemo 6. The idea that the screen of the device is a window to a full desktop is very intriguing and is referred to as the “Canvas Principle.” Maemo 6 will expand and build upon Maemo 5 and is described as an “iconic user experience and integrated Internet services in one aesthetic package.” Maemo 6 will also support portrait mode, which Maemo 5 currently fails to deliver on the Nokia N900.
Unfortunately it will be at least a year before we can see this come to life, and so the question remains… To N900 or not to N900? As you will need to replace your hardware in order to get the new goodies.
Via: Slashgear
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Bottom line. Yeah, that one. You know what? Nokia keeps doing this BS, requiring us to buy a new hardware in order to get new software improvements. “Programmed Obsolescence”… and we (I, at least) shall might just as well jump ship.
I’m not required to buy a new computer in order to use a new OS, or a new monitor (capacitive screens). OSes are not made to serve peripherals, peripherals serve the OS, which then serves the user.
In order to sell hardware, Nokia is going too far reversing that decades-old proven chain. And we already moved on on cell phones, so the old rule of the mobile ecosystem does not work anymore. I thank Google for pushing that idea — at least the idea — with Android. Praise them. Without them, and also Apple, we would probably still be cooking Maemo with yet another no-phone net tablet.
By the way… isn’t all this “programmed obsolescence”, which is much more like a “hardware lockout”, completely against the idea behind the Linux? A free (as in speech) software that isn’t free at all? It’s 580 dollars, actually!!!