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Nokia delays Linux-based tablet
prostoalex writes "Nokia delayed its Linux-based tablet product, the first one to use open-source Maemo tablet. The official site still optimistically promises delivery by Q3 2005, but the word is that Nokia is trying to improve the quality of the product and push the product before Christmas."
That's obviously because they're using Linux. I mean, product delays never happen in the Windows world.
But I was told Linux is superior to Windows. Those bad things happened in the Windows world don't happen in the Linux world. Now that more people have tried Linux in the real word, looks like Linux is just another overly hyped OS.
>A few years back Nokia ignored the flip phone trend and as such I can't even buy a Nokia from Cingular, the largest retailer of phones in North America.
>Then Nokia tried making a gaming system (NGAGE) and that failed miserably.
>Now they're trying to make a Linux-based tablet computer. It will fail.
>What's the deal? Are they TRYING to self-destruct?
Nokia are the biggest selling mobile phone manufacturer (outside the United States of Amnesia), and probably don't care much about selling anything into the USA. The Americans have a "not invented here" mentality, that largely cripples their collective critical faculties!
Get over it, Yanks - the USA is largely irrelevant in today's world.