[Qt-interest] Nokia and MS

[Frederico A. M. Prado]

Oh, they do, rest assured.

Whenever they can't install their porn on their devices, or anything  
judged inappropriate by Apple as political caricatures or God knows what  
else.

Whenever the application that does the things they want, like tethering  
for example, is available in another system but not in theirs.

Whenever their device prevents them from running their media because it  
lacks the right DRM.

Whenever their device prevents them from choosing which carrier service  
they want(which is illegal in my country by the way).

It takes sometime, but eventually restrictions do drive people away as it  
already did in the past.


You underestimate people grossly, that is exactly what Apple did a long  
time ago, and exactly why Steve Jobs lost his job at the time in the first  
place. He could have learned with his mistakes, but unfortunately time  
passes and people forget their mistakes or rationalize them.

Fred



On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:30:50 -0200, Atlant Schmidt  
<aschmidt at dekaresearch.com> wrote:

> 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