Elop has shown his ignorance in the way mobile phones are sold (at least in the UK). The pressure on sales staff is incredible to make the numbers. They cannot afford to put all of their efforts into selling a lame duck. And the public are all buying iPhones, Android and BlackBerry smartphones. The WP7 Nokia Lumia are not generating much if any interest in the buying public. So the sales staff are going to focus on all and anything that will fly off the shelf, and WP7, no matter how much smoke Elop blow up our arses about how good it is (it isn't) will make a blind bit of difference.
Nice try Nokia. Now do the right thing, swallow your pride and put Android on the N8 and be prepared to be hit with a tsunami of orders.
Yes, we gave up that particular freedom [to not self-incriminate] without so much as a whimper, cough or sneeze. When technology fails the UK (and EU) simply make up a new law against it's citizens.
The EULA clauses are unlikely to stand the test of a court case. People's statutory rights cannot be overwritten no matter how inconvenient it is for the manufacturer/supplier of a product.
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Can you really not see what is so horrendously wrong with all that you just wrote?
Elop has shown his ignorance in the way mobile phones are sold (at least in the UK). The pressure on sales staff is incredible to make the numbers. They cannot afford to put all of their efforts into selling a lame duck. And the public are all buying iPhones, Android and BlackBerry smartphones. The WP7 Nokia Lumia are not generating much if any interest in the buying public. So the sales staff are going to focus on all and anything that will fly off the shelf, and WP7, no matter how much smoke Elop blow up our arses about how good it is (it isn't) will make a blind bit of difference. Nice try Nokia. Now do the right thing, swallow your pride and put Android on the N8 and be prepared to be hit with a tsunami of orders.
Yes, we gave up that particular freedom [to not self-incriminate] without so much as a whimper, cough or sneeze. When technology fails the UK (and EU) simply make up a new law against it's citizens.
The EULA clauses are unlikely to stand the test of a court case. People's statutory rights cannot be overwritten no matter how inconvenient it is for the manufacturer/supplier of a product.