Posts by Khephren

Re: Yep, there's a huge difference between ''wiped out" and "nearly wiped out".

Apart from the terror birds...god those things are scary!

Re: here is why

yep, i would probably be a happy Maemo/Meego user still, but rather than repair my N900, they sent me an N8 instead. I will never buy an 80's wallpaper windows phone.

agreed

That's what I thought. For a minute I wondered if i'd opened Ars Technica by mistake ;)

Great article, and Simon Segars, knows his stuff.

To much of a hog.

to advanced for the time' equates with badly written to run on machines of that time it was designed for. Other manufacturers ran GUI OS's just fine on machines with little ram.

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"okia & MS were the leaders in the smartphone market it was a moribund niche market populated by a few geeks and a handful of executards."

Really? The N95 ,82 etc were in a moribund market? Your as bout as clueless as the guy who wrote this article.

"Selling $50 dollar crap plastic phones to pre teen adolescents, old farts and assorted luddites is hardly the market position that would excite Nokia shareholders"

Europe & the US are a saturated market, Apple has priced itself out of developing markets. You know where the future money is coming from, and it's not over here.

"And they have been crappy, unresponsive, user-hostile shitfests made to suit the demands of the telcos rather than the consumers who would use them."

I suggest you actually try using a maemo tablet, rather than just letting your mouth run away with you.

"big rant in the middle"

Some truth there, amonst the frothing.

"RIM"

Big in the states, not anywhere else. RIM is going to be the next major casualty (IMHO).

"Later, apple came along and did the same for the consumer market"

High end consumer market. They will put themselves in a boutique expensive niche- just like they did on the desktop. And i'll be sorry to see it happen.

"you can bleat all you like about how apple just copies Nokia and Nokia was there first"

Don't see how replying to (infantile) article header "Memo to Microsoft, RIM, Nokia: Quit copying Apple!" with truth, is bleating.

Bad journalism-end of story.

Your post 100% shite.

commodore

I'm not so sure there is an equivelent now, but certainly in the past. The Amiga was years ahead of the opposition, most of the phones offer (roughly) the same level of advancement now.

Perhaps the early Symbian (re: EPOC) would be a contender?: early multitasking smartphone OS, that punched above it's wait while consuming small amount of resources, but offering great software, and lots of games....but slowly lost the lead by failing to inovate like they used to.