Re:Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops ph...
by mongol on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @02:32PM
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What if Nokia 770 also was a phone? History could have been so radically different. I will never understand...
Re:Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops ph...
by honkhonkpants on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @04:24PM
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If the 770 was also a phone, it would have been a ghastly tablet with a phone inside.
Re:Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops ph...
by orbitingpluto on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @05:14PM
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But in 2007, the n800 would have been a ghastly tablet/phone with 2.5x the pixels, expandable storage to 64GB, and several different media players that sucked, but are still better than iTunes today. I'm still using the Canola media player on an n810.
Re:Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops ph...
by unlinker on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @03:48PM
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The story of Nokia MeeGo: http://muropaketti.com/artikkelit/the-story-of-nokia-meego
But to be honest we also had our share of alienating developers, it wasn't only MS fault.
First the Symbian development was a mess with the Metrowerk tools and that Symbian C++ dialect, then came PIPS, followed by Carbide (Eclipse based).
Followed by the whole mess of open sourcing Symbian and closing it again.
Or the Symbian model moving from Symbian C++ / PIPS to Qt, also in the middle this process.
Maemo was GTK, but then everyone should move to Qt. Better not lets also move the OS into Meego.
I remember asking why the Nokia 770 didn't had a GSM modem and the team saying to me that wasn't the market they wanted to target. When they did the usual roadshow of upcoming devices.
Nokia was already quite bad in terms of relationship with app developers before Elop came into the party, due to the internal politics.
Of course, the famous burning platform memo was just the last way to alienate developers that were slowly accepting the new Qt based model for Symbian, after all the previous pain points.