On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:48:26AM -0700, Mark wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Ryan Abel <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 5, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Mark wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Marius Gedminas <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Overall, the current generations of NITs are far from perfect, but they > >>> are the best hacker's devices of their size I've ever seen. > >> > >> And *that* is the summary of the state of the tablets: they're *great* > >> for hackers, but as consumer end-user devices, not so much. > > > > And? This is exactly how Nokia's positioned them, so it sounds like the plan > > is working really well. > > > That is as Benjamin Disraeli would say it, a "damned lie". Your > unrealistic protests notwithstanding, these things have been and still > are being sold as consumer devices, and nowhere are they referred to > as being aimed at hackers.
On several occasions people from Nokia with official-sounding titles
(such as "Vice President") explicitly say that they expect it will take
around five generations for the Internet Tablets to be consumer-ready.
The N810 is 3rd generation.
I'd provide references if I weren't a lazy bum.
Marius Gedminas
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
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