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White Spirit wrote:
I have the Nokia N810 and it is an excellent device. Of course, you
need to point the application manager to the extra repositories before
you have a nice array of software to install.
This situation surprises me.
There is some lack of clarity about the thinking behind open source
smart phone models due out soon.
If Linux were to be deployed and the desktop of the device is made
skinnable with a variety of common Linux X desktops and applications, then
all the other Linux applications become instantly available and the phone's
desktop and more developers could rush in to contribute more applications.
By making that process convoluted, all it does is damage
the revenue streams of the phone companies and
the companies making the smartphones.
I agree. I think Nokia, through the Maemo developers, adopted the
default behaviour of the package manager in order that they could
certify software that they recommend. Unfortunately, they do not seem
to have bothered to certify much third party software at all and using
the default repository gives the impression that there is a paucity of
available applications, which is not the case. A better option would be
to allow the user to activate extra repositories with a warning that
Nokia have no control over third party applications installed through them.
Aside from Claws mail, which I use for Usenet access, I don't use third
party software at this stage but it's nice to see what there is.
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