Berlin -- Handsets World
I just arrived in Berlin to participate the Handsets World conference. (The Netherlands just scored a goal, by the way!)
I'll have a keynote talk tomorrow, and a panel session. My talk is going to be about our vision -- and how open source can help.
And now it is 2-0!
I'll have a keynote talk tomorrow, and a panel session. My talk is going to be about our vision -- and how open source can help.
And now it is 2-0!
posted by Ari Jaaksi at 9:09 PM
10 Comments:
Hi Ari,
I hope you can fins a way to record your presentation (even if it's audio only) and share it to everyone.
Thanks.
Reggie - itT
Could you please comment on the latest Apple announce, iPhone for $199. Is it a heavy hit on Nokia, including Maemo platform?
Thank you
In the end we lost 3-0 :(
Sergey, the new iPhone is NOT $199.
That's just the first payment on a long term contract, the actual total price of the new iPhone is very similar to the price of the old iPhone.
You will NOT be able to buy the iPhone without a contract for anything near $199.
Oh yikes. I hope the buisness week article is not your true words;
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jun2008/gb20080612_288518.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_global+business
It's certainly not a favourite with the /. crowd (whom I am also in agreeance with)
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/08/06/13/123206.shtml
I realize that Business Week article is taken out of context, but sheesh:
"Some of these things harm the industry but they're here [as things stand]. These are touchy, emotional issues but this dialogue is very much needed. As an industry, we plan to use open-source technologies but we are not yet ready to play by the rules; but this needs to work the other way round too."
Maybe it's just poor grammar, but it does sound suspiciously as though you want to use the work of FOSS developers without accepting the various licenses they've chosen.
You want to use FOSS software on your phones, tablets, etc? Fine. But, if you aren't ready to play by their rules, pay your own developers and don't pretend you're doing anything Open Source.
The Open Source community does not need you. It's nice to have a big company behind Qt, but we'll manage just fine without Troll Tech.
If you can get a transcript of that speech, and it puts things in a light that doesn't make you sound like such a self-centered idiotic jackass, it would probably be a good PR move to post that ASAP (and to let /. know about it).
I've been an early enthusiast, buyer, and supporter of NITs. I've convinced my friends buy NITs in order to support Nokia and your efforts in hoping to achieve a truly open mobile platform. =
I voiced my concerns about future of NITs on a thread on ITT. I've been (baseless I'm told) complaining about not using the best bits of hardware on the NITs. I've been complaining about unnecessary forking of software. I am concerned about the obscurity of some of the software.
But the speech you allegedly gave in Berlin and which is reported on Slashdot truly shocks me. I'm appalled by the your lack of grasping OSS mindset and core concepts. I don't even want to think that this will mean a reversal of Nokia from OSS. I've been expecting that too much to be let down now.
And I continue to hope that the next NITs will be free, and even have that SIM option that isn't so difficult to ingrate for other manufacturers http://www.umpcportal.com/products/product.php?id=170.
Please rethink your position as a company.
Wow, as someone who should know better, you sure can scare the heck out of me.
It would be bad enough if someone in your position believed what you said. But to be so out of touch as to actually say it?
The future is not bright for Nokia I am afraid.
The Evilness Level for Nokia has been raised from 62.8 to 76.4, that is 14 points and close to the record raising, kept by Microsoft, but an additional declaration against ogg could have beaten them.
Maemo was a step in the right direction. Fighting a format without restrictions or patents for any player is a movement against the consumer and possibly, a shoot in the foot. The declarations about DRM, SIM-locks and so on, is a call for the developers to work for free pushing the Nokia agenda without giving anything back and are utterly stupid. I am not giving up my principles and/or moral values around software. And I'm releasing all my future software as GPL3 to avoid Nokia tivoizing them.
Uhm, and I believe that QT will turn BSD soon, because Nokia just does not understand FLOSS. You can release phones with python, tablets with Linux/Gnome, or even contribute to the Linux kernel, but if you ask us to swallow your DRM/SIM-lock pill, then you do not get it. As a matter of advice: Bright-Lines, hypervisors and locked kernel modes are movements against consumers and developers, and as such, will be hacked. We will encourage that. I will eat truckloads of assembly for it to happen.
I buy phones because of features and discourage them because of restrictions. Nokia is doomed to failure.
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