I've said it before and I'll say it again. The reason why Nokia won't go down the OSS route is because they have exactly the same monopolistic ambitions as Microsoft. Nokia want to stitch up the whole wireless market - hardware, infrastructure and applications for themselves. Believe me you will end up begging Microsoft to come in and break-up Nokia's monopoly.
Did you know that Nokia has consistently blocked standardisation of APIs that would allow third-party applications to access the full features of the underlying cellular network? They want to reserve that capability for their own stuff.
Iain.
Apart from being the worst web designer on the planet (well maybe not THE worst but still pretty bad). This guy also has the biggest pile of junk ever seen on eBAY. I was particularly taken by "Life Lessons of a Male Dancer".
I ask you - "would you buy a used aircraft from this man"?
Lets not forget that Nokia was the driving force behind WAP, and most of its problems were due to their poor technical design and lack of an open service vision.
In fact Nokia is trying to put the kind of lock on mobile data services which will have you begging Microsoft to come in and break-it-up. Microsoft know this - to quote:
"If you go out to the likes of Nokia, and they'll talk forever about the mobile Internet as being this separate thing that sits out there side by side with the wired Internet that we all use for accessing from PCs and notebooks, and they also go out and evangelize standards that are separate for this mobile Internet."
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. The reason why Nokia won't go down the OSS route is because they have exactly the same monopolistic ambitions as Microsoft. Nokia want to stitch up the whole wireless market - hardware, infrastructure and applications for themselves. Believe me you will end up begging Microsoft to come in and break-up Nokia's monopoly. Did you know that Nokia has consistently blocked standardisation of APIs that would allow third-party applications to access the full features of the underlying cellular network? They want to reserve that capability for their own stuff. Iain.
I ask you - "would you buy a used aircraft from this man"?
In fact Nokia is trying to put the kind of lock on mobile data services which will have you begging Microsoft to come in and break-it-up. Microsoft know this - to quote: "If you go out to the likes of Nokia, and they'll talk forever about the mobile Internet as being this separate thing that sits out there side by side with the wired Internet that we all use for accessing from PCs and notebooks, and they also go out and evangelize standards that are separate for this mobile Internet."