"A single company to come in low would kill off all pre-pay providers as well as gain all of the older folks and hold outs who won't pay $40+ for a cell phone now. That is a very large market."
A single company like Nokia with their "3rd world line up" or Motorola with their 25$ cell phone? Oh, they didn't collapse the market, did they? Wonder why it is, may be because people have differing needs. There are people like me, who want everything in one device (it is pretty ironic, that people sitting by a programmable computer complain about devices that try to do everything).
Thinking that failure of Nokia outsells whole Windows Smartphone platform offering.
Anyways, mobile-TV is probably going to succeed a fair bit better than N-Gage. This time they have their form factor correct from the beginning with Nokia N92.
I think what this means is Nokia has been using eclipse for a while and they've noticed some ways to make it easier to develop for their phones so they're going to write some plugins and maybe do a small amount of core work.
Yes, companies like Nokia just notice products are sort of suitable for them and then decide to dedicate money and personnel expanding it. Wrong answer. Real reason is of course that there is no money to be made in mobile development tools and no IDE company is going to put too much effort on features Nokia (and others) want to see in mobile development area. So Nokia must do it themselves. Like they did with CodeWarrior, when they bought its Symbian team. Eclipse just happens to be good strategic choice, because it is created by a friendly (from Nokia's viewpoint) entity.
It is widely expected that the Academy will hold off on rewarding Peter Jackson's Tolkien trilogy until it is finished.
Let's wait a year and see whether Jackson gets the recognition he deserves. "Lord of the Rings" is no "One Flew over Cuckoo's Nest" nor "Godfather" for that matter, but we have seen far worse films win the award in recent years *cough*Titanic*cough*.
"...which may be gaining the (initial) upper hand simply because they are not Microsoft. "
Err right. That might be true in the/. Community, but the reality is that the vast majority of people either really don't care. Outside of Slashot, the real world isn't exactly vindictive against MS.
Err Wrong. Opera isn't trying to win consumer mobile browser market as there is no such market. Opera is trying to get mobile phone manufacturers to use their product. And if you think of Nokia et al. they most certainly are going to pick non-Microsoft software for their terminals, mainly because it is not Microsoft's.
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What is the Canadian military doing inside the complex? As a European I simply can't understand that part.
"A single company to come in low would kill off all pre-pay providers as well as gain all of the older folks and hold outs who won't pay $40+ for a cell phone now. That is a very large market."
A single company like Nokia with their "3rd world line up" or Motorola with their 25$ cell phone? Oh, they didn't collapse the market, did they? Wonder why it is, may be because people have differing needs. There are people like me, who want everything in one device (it is pretty ironic, that people sitting by a programmable computer complain about devices that try to do everything).
Thinking that failure of Nokia outsells whole Windows Smartphone platform offering.
Anyways, mobile-TV is probably going to succeed a fair bit better than N-Gage. This time they have their form factor correct from the beginning with Nokia N92.
Yes, companies like Nokia just notice products are sort of suitable for them and then decide to dedicate money and personnel expanding it. Wrong answer. Real reason is of course that there is no money to be made in mobile development tools and no IDE company is going to put too much effort on features Nokia (and others) want to see in mobile development area. So Nokia must do it themselves. Like they did with CodeWarrior, when they bought its Symbian team. Eclipse just happens to be good strategic choice, because it is created by a friendly (from Nokia's viewpoint) entity.
And there must be something like 25 million Series 60 devices. I wouldn't consider that a niche market, but hey you were being funny, weren't you?
Let's wait a year and see whether Jackson gets the recognition he deserves. "Lord of the Rings" is no "One Flew over Cuckoo's Nest" nor "Godfather" for that matter, but we have seen far worse films win the award in recent years *cough*Titanic*cough*.
"...which may be gaining the (initial) upper hand simply because they are not Microsoft. "
/. Community, but the reality is that the vast majority of people either really don't care. Outside of Slashot, the real world isn't exactly vindictive against MS.
Err right. That might be true in the
Err Wrong. Opera isn't trying to win consumer mobile browser market as there is no such market. Opera is trying to get mobile phone manufacturers to use their product. And if you think of Nokia et al. they most certainly are going to pick non-Microsoft software for their terminals, mainly because it is not Microsoft's.