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Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business by coldtea on Thursday July 28, 2016 @09:42PM (#12184551)
>Maemo was fantastic, and completely blew everything away that was out at the time the N900 was released.

N900 was released in 2009.

iOS was leaps and bounds better even at 2007 in the original iPhone introduction. Heck, even Android was better than Maemo in 2009.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7emvUBpEkbU

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Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business by honkhonkpants on Thursday July 28, 2016 @09:50PM (#12184569)
I lost it when he launched Midnight Commander.
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Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business by nodamage on Thursday July 28, 2016 @11:37PM (#12184888)
I'm sorry but anyone that thinks this is a good UI obviously has zero understanding of user interface design.
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Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business by staticelf on Friday July 29, 2016 @04:33AM (#12185610)
Just shows how important user interface is..
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Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business by Nullabillity on Thursday July 28, 2016 @10:32PM (#12184718)
> iOS was leaps and bounds better even at 2007 in the original iPhone introduction.

Well, that pretty much disqualifies any further point.

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