Comments on: Maemo 6 Announced | sporting multi-touch on capacitive displays http://maemoworld.org/2009/10/10/maemo-6-revealed-includes-capacitive-multitouch-support/ All about the Nokia N900, Maemo, Internet and more Thu, 17 May 2012 08:05:26 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: David http://maemoworld.org/2009/10/10/maemo-6-revealed-includes-capacitive-multitouch-support/#comment-5 David Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:35:01 +0000 http://maemoworld.org/?p=80#comment-5 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!!! 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!!!

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