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Re:The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality by kookamamie on Sunday July 20, 2025 @07:32AM (#44624146)
I was there, too. Not at Nokia, but in the ecosystem of these companies.

People wanted iPhone over Nokia, not due to its specs but due to its usability and presentation.

Let's be honest, both Symbian and Maemo/Meego were abject messes in both of these categories.

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Re:The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality by dijit on Sunday July 20, 2025 @07:36AM (#44624181)
They were really trying with MeeGo, we used to joke that we had the most expensive clock app in the world because it had been remade so many times. People forget that R&D can be super expensive. Apple definitely cooked there.

Symbian though, I mean, considering the hardware constraints was crazy!

The smartphone variant of Symbian needed 2MiB of Memory and supported Qt... madness.

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Re:The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality by walterbell on Sunday July 20, 2025 @09:46AM (#44625150)
We need a Symbian/Nokia movie to accompany the "Blackberry" movie, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXL_HDzBQsM

  Mike, are you familiar with the saying, "Perfect is the enemy of Good"?

  Well, "good enough" is the enemy of humanity.
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Re:The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality by blub on Sunday July 20, 2025 @11:12AM (#44625927)
Meego’s N9 had in some areas better usability than the iPhone and was overall competitive.

Tap to wake, slide to homescreen, the control center were introduced by the N9.

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