[Qt-interest] Nokia and MS

[Atlant Schmidt]

Frederico:

  You understand that >95% of the customers for
  smarphones couldn't give a damn whether their
  ecosystem is "open", they only care that is
  vibrant and contains the apps *THEY* need.

  It's only a certain set of software partisans
  who think "open" is worth much in isolation
  from other attributes.

                      Atlant

-----Original Message-----
From: qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com [mailto:qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com] On Behalf Of Frederico A. M. Prado
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 11:25
To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Nokia and MS

The difference is that for the last 20 years it has not been like such
thanks to Apple's demise 20 years ago.

Yes, Microsoft has been TRYING to do that for a long time, and it has been
failing at that for about as long, as will Apple. Apple is doing exactly
the same mistake it did 20 years ago, and although it is working in the
short term, the consequences are due to be exactly the same in the end.

Personally, I place my bets on Android.

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:06:35 -0200, BRM <bm_witness at yahoo.com> wrote:

>> From: Frederico A. M. Prado <famprado at terra.com.br>
>> >  Right, for last 20 years we lived in the Dark Age of domination of
>> > defective x86 architecture and crappy OSes from  Microsoft
>> Which are certainly much worse than OSes that decide  for you what you
>> can
>> or cannot install in your device and closed  architectures,  right?
>
> The difference is?
>
> Seriously, Microsoft has been working on that goal on Windows for a long
> time.
> Apple just beat them to it on specialized devices and then expanded out
> to
> regular systems.
>
> There go a few more chairs in Redmond.
>
> Ben
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