I worked for Nokia when the MS alliance was announced. Elop is ex-MS, he brought in some higher management from MS. The company is already drinking the MS kool-aid internally, the takeover is complete in every way except financially. Nokia shareholders would not object to getting the company out of Finland, it's expensive to hire people there and expensive to fire them. Fortunately for MS a whole lot have already been fired.
I hate this resolution. I seems to me that screen resolutions have gone backwards, it's nigh on impossible to do any development with this shitty resolution. My old 5 year old Dell laptop supports 1600x1200 compared to my more modern Acer laptop despite the Acer having a far more powerful graphics card. It's not even a native HD resolution so your graphics card has to scale the 720p image up to display it on fullscreen... which totally defeats the purpose of 720p as the scaling hardware is probably crap. It seems to me that laptop manufacturers are shooting themselves in the foot with this crap.
Anthony Zappero has some really interesting things to say about space travel
http://www.neofuel.com/inhabit/inhabit.pdf
It's a bit scattered but I found it really, really interesting.
It doesn't matter. When it comes to platform choice the end-user's opinioin rarely matters, especially those of nerds. Nokia's N900 was one of the most customisable and Linux-based etc, etc, mobile phones ever developed. They only sold 100,000 of them worldwide, the geek market is unprofitable.
Operators are uninterested in WebOS, they're too busy right now trying to make Windows Phone compete with iOS and Android.
"This programming philosophy will allow you to develop high quality software really quickly, and on the cheap" is the equivalent of a politician promising to fix every problem in the country with no sacrifices required, and put chocolate milk in all the water fountains to boot.
It's always the old thing: fast, cheap, or quick--pick any two.
You beat me to it. Agile is growing like a cancer, every job description at least mentions it if not requiring some experience in it.
It seems to me that managers believe that it's 'Agile or die'. It isn't, if you're poor development practices and processes already in place
suddenly 'becoming Agile' won't help anything.
I've read employee comments about startups like Zygna, while they probably proudly proclaim to be Agile their developers consider it chaotic.
It didn't work for Symbian, it won't work for Web OS either. It's dead, any employees thinking that this will lengthen their career should think again, unfortunately.
This is the best thing that the iPhone has done for the cell phone industry. Apple doesn't bow down and let the carrier load whatever crap they want to on the phone. This makes the iPhone a much better experience, because an iPhone from Verizon is exactly the same as an iPhone from AT&T and it exactly the same as an iPhone you purchase directly from Apple. The only difference is that the carrier specific phones have been locked to that provider, but that's acceptable since you're getting the phone at a huge discount. I wish more handset makes, especially the big ones (HTC, Motorola, Nokia) would do the same to offer their customers a much better and more consistent experience.
If you purchase a phone directly from Nokia you get the clean firmware.
I was jsut about to post about this. Nokia commits to a lot of things and generally they fail to pan out. I think we'll be revisiting this story in a year or so.
absolutely! I've a high-end laptop restricted by a max res of 1366x768. Not very good for developing on. I assumed that the res was a 'suggested' one and that I'd be able to whack it up when I got home, but no.
Nokia is not capable of back-porting Meego to the N8 hardware platform. It finds it hard enough to put bug fixes into customers' hands, let alone a whole other OS.
Sorry.
Seeing as how any app that's unsigned cannot do this sort of stuff without the user being asked (probably several times) if it's ok?
But hey, Symbian OS isn't Linux based so it must be crap, eh?
Is it the same situation with these cards as with the Radeon Mobility HD cards whereby you cannot download updated drivers directly from ATI but must go to your PC/laptop manufacturer instead?
Is there proper Linux support (proprietary drivers)?
There's not for the Mobility cards
It wasn't a strategic choice. It was because they had too many phones out there. Each had its own features implemented a certain way which was fine for that phone. Once these features because mainstream they were reimplemented, breaking compatibility with older versions.
Nokia has two platforms... Series60 and Maemo (now Meego)
I keep having to do this but Symbian != Series 60.
Series 60 is built on top of Symbian, which also hhad UIQ and MOAP built on top of it.
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Not sure, I was sold to Accenture and didn't hang around long there.
I worked for Nokia when the MS alliance was announced. Elop is ex-MS, he brought in some higher management from MS. The company is already drinking the MS kool-aid internally, the takeover is complete in every way except financially. Nokia shareholders would not object to getting the company out of Finland, it's expensive to hire people there and expensive to fire them. Fortunately for MS a whole lot have already been fired.
Not Microsoft. It was even highlighted in the article. Sheesh!
I hate this resolution. I seems to me that screen resolutions have gone backwards, it's nigh on impossible to do any development with this shitty resolution. My old 5 year old Dell laptop supports 1600x1200 compared to my more modern Acer laptop despite the Acer having a far more powerful graphics card. It's not even a native HD resolution so your graphics card has to scale the 720p image up to display it on fullscreen... which totally defeats the purpose of 720p as the scaling hardware is probably crap. It seems to me that laptop manufacturers are shooting themselves in the foot with this crap.
Anthony Zappero has some really interesting things to say about space travel http://www.neofuel.com/inhabit/inhabit.pdf It's a bit scattered but I found it really, really interesting.
It doesn't matter. When it comes to platform choice the end-user's opinioin rarely matters, especially those of nerds. Nokia's N900 was one of the most customisable and Linux-based etc, etc, mobile phones ever developed. They only sold 100,000 of them worldwide, the geek market is unprofitable. Operators are uninterested in WebOS, they're too busy right now trying to make Windows Phone compete with iOS and Android.
Umm, i must say that after dealing with our IT dept the last thing I want to do is fill out a survey for them
Let me guess, you work in QA?
This is exactly the reason why Nokia is now struggling for survival.
There, I said it.
"This programming philosophy will allow you to develop high quality software really quickly, and on the cheap" is the equivalent of a politician promising to fix every problem in the country with no sacrifices required, and put chocolate milk in all the water fountains to boot.
It's always the old thing: fast, cheap, or quick--pick any two.
You beat me to it. Agile is growing like a cancer, every job description at least mentions it if not requiring some experience in it. It seems to me that managers believe that it's 'Agile or die'. It isn't, if you're poor development practices and processes already in place suddenly 'becoming Agile' won't help anything. I've read employee comments about startups like Zygna, while they probably proudly proclaim to be Agile their developers consider it chaotic.
It didn't work for Symbian, it won't work for Web OS either. It's dead, any employees thinking that this will lengthen their career should think again, unfortunately.
This is the best thing that the iPhone has done for the cell phone industry. Apple doesn't bow down and let the carrier load whatever crap they want to on the phone. This makes the iPhone a much better experience, because an iPhone from Verizon is exactly the same as an iPhone from AT&T and it exactly the same as an iPhone you purchase directly from Apple. The only difference is that the carrier specific phones have been locked to that provider, but that's acceptable since you're getting the phone at a huge discount. I wish more handset makes, especially the big ones (HTC, Motorola, Nokia) would do the same to offer their customers a much better and more consistent experience.
If you purchase a phone directly from Nokia you get the clean firmware.
I don't know the exact details but it has. Very few people know for exactly what.
I always found OO slow, bloated and visually unappealing. I forgave it though as I assumed it had been developed by students.
I was jsut about to post about this. Nokia commits to a lot of things and generally they fail to pan out. I think we'll be revisiting this story in a year or so.
Geeks and fanbois are a tiny fraction of the market. The N900, a geek-fest Linux-based phone, sold only 100,000 units. It hardly paid for itself.
absolutely! I've a high-end laptop restricted by a max res of 1366x768. Not very good for developing on. I assumed that the res was a 'suggested' one and that I'd be able to whack it up when I got home, but no.
Nokia is not capable of back-porting Meego to the N8 hardware platform. It finds it hard enough to put bug fixes into customers' hands, let alone a whole other OS. Sorry.
For streaming it's pretty bad too. I tried weiving www.tvcatchup.com (UK only) over the weekend and it too was like a powerpoint presentation
Seeing as how any app that's unsigned cannot do this sort of stuff without the user being asked (probably several times) if it's ok? But hey, Symbian OS isn't Linux based so it must be crap, eh?
Is it the same situation with these cards as with the Radeon Mobility HD cards whereby you cannot download updated drivers directly from ATI but must go to your PC/laptop manufacturer instead? Is there proper Linux support (proprietary drivers)? There's not for the Mobility cards
Ok, it's turn based and works over WiFi but it's pretty fun.
There's nothing fun about baseball... pixelated or not.
It wasn't a strategic choice. It was because they had too many phones out there. Each had its own features implemented a certain way which was fine for that phone. Once these features because mainstream they were reimplemented, breaking compatibility with older versions. Nokia has two platforms... Series60 and Maemo (now Meego) I keep having to do this but Symbian != Series 60. Series 60 is built on top of Symbian, which also hhad UIQ and MOAP built on top of it.
"Covered by one or more of the following patents..." seems to me they have their ass covered