Hi, I think the two devices are rather different and not really competing directly that much against eachother. Also based on Apple's track record I think their openness will be much less than Nokia's in regards to this device. The whole Darwin joke hasn't exactly shown Apple to really give a shit.
The N770/N800 team are working constantly on improving the stack both in terms of quality but also in terms of openness. I have to admit to not have followed the iPhone news that closely, but the little I have seen hasn't mentioned providing an open stack at all from Apple. If you have any links with details on Apple's plans in that regard I would love to see them. Christian On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 12:30 -0500, Dave Neuer wrote: > On 1/10/07, Ted Zlatanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think the 770/N800 break with OS support from ITOS2006 to ITOS2007 > > is reasonable. The 770 was a first-generation device, really the > > first of its kind. I hope the N800 doesn't get deprecated in the same > > way, and I hope Nokia at least considers giving some discount to > > people buying the N800 that bought a 770 previously. > > What's amazing to me is that someone in charge at Nokia thinks that > independant developers are going to flock to develop a market-creating > software ecosystem for a $400-$500 half-open platform, especially in > light of Apple's recent announcement of the iPhone -- a $500 half-open > platform which presumably will ship with Apple-provided "killer apps," > no magic market creation required. > > This has seemed to be Nokia's strategic blunder all along; create a > pretty compelling hardware platform which does so many things right -- > like using standard, user-replaceable batteries -- and then relying on > half measures on the software side (half measures meaning not a) > creating a compelling software platform for the device internally > which was ready for prime time when the device shipped, or b) _really_ > empowering the community to develop the platform, in a way that took > _full_advantage_ of all the device's capabilities). > > In short, I think that fully opening the platform (both n770 and n880) > now is the only way Nokia's going to be able to compete when the > iPhone comes out in 5 or 6 months. > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
