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Re: The future of your Nokia Windows phone

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Originally Posted by abill_uk (Post 956269)

At least i dont sit in front of this screen looking at the sad people on here arguing all day and every day because as i have said before i got a life out if this community that DONT involve Nokia devices and its a damm good one hahahaha.

The point is that whether you have a life outside this forum or not is completely irrelevant. Besides, claiming to be the only one with a life just makes appear even less objective. You'd be surprised of the intense life many people here have outside this forum.

This particular thread has to do with what the future of Nokia Windows Phones is likely to be. Many of us felt like discussing this subject for one reason or another. If you don't have anything intelligent to add to the discussion then you are better off being quiet. Better yet, go and do something that really interests you. ;)

PS: Sorry it took me so long to respond. I had other more pressing things to do. :D

Re: The future of your Nokia Windows phone

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Originally Posted by gerbick (Post 956659)

I'm the fanboy? That's a title I'd never thought I'd have applied to me. Nerf herder perhaps... but fanboy?

You must be new here.

No, the other one :)

Re: The future of your Nokia Windows phone

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Originally Posted by gerbick (Post 956313)

So mobile OS's are analogous to illegal drugs now? Guess I missed that memo.

Simply put, buy what works for you. Trying to make random, legal things synonymous with random illegal things... I might not quite get the gist of what you're trying to say.

So... for a dummy like me. MS bad drugs, open source good drugs?

Actually, gerbick, the comparison of Microsoft to drug dealers is quite appropriate in a way. And this is not the first time such comparison is made. The similarities, and the moral issues involved, have been a frequent topic of discussion all over the web for years. Here is a particularly good example:

http://www.advogato.org/article/793.html

The argument has even been the subject of some court cases, such as this case in Brazil:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7654

But even Bill Gates himself has made this comparison. One instance of that was reported on CNN Money. Gates talking to business school students at the University of Washington:

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Although about three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortu...5683/index.htm

That sounds a lot like the tactics drug pushers use wouldn't you say? ;)

Re: The future of your Nokia Windows phone

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Originally Posted by rm42 (Post 956701)

That sounds a lot like the tactics drug pushers use wouldn't you say? ;)

That is just stupid. You can say the same about bread and circus, the Romans did, or the ISO standard, or bicycles with inflatable rubber tires.

Re: The future of your Nokia Windows phone

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Originally Posted by ericsson (Post 956707)

That is just stupid. You can say the same about bread and circus,

How so? Was there a dependency created by the bread that the circus took advantage of?

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Originally Posted by ericsson (Post 956707)

the Romans did,

Is this related to the bread and the circus? Did the Romans give free bread to the people so that they went to the circus and got hooked on the violence? I guess that is quite immoral too. But how does that refute my point?

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Originally Posted by ericsson (Post 956707)

or the ISO standard,

Which ISO standard? Ah, you must mean the 29500 ISO standard (better known as Office Open XML). Yes, I can see how the way that format came to be called an ISO standard could be compared to the way the mafia works as well. That was rather callous I would say.

http://grokdoc.net/index.php/Dirty_Tricks_history

But, again, how does that refute my point?

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Originally Posted by ericsson (Post 956707)

or bicycles with inflatable rubber tires.

Well, I really give up on this one. Please enlighten me.

Re: The future of your Nokia Windows phone

This is the best move Nokia made in a long time. Nokia needs Microsoft more than Microsoft needs Nokia. Nokia software engineering on touchscreens is way behind competition. Your examp

Re: The future of your Nokia Windows phone

Your example of addiction can be also applied to Nokia and Third World. Nokia is doing similar strategy to get people addicted to Symbian.

Re: The future of your Nokia Windows phone

OK, I think the drug analogy is appropriate, but if you prefer, Australian corned beef & the pacific islands.

Mish.

Re: The future of your Nokia Windows phone

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Originally Posted by rm42 (Post 956701)

That sounds a lot like the tactics drug pushers use wouldn't you say?

I would agree... but the noise that my DVD burner was making while I burn my latest free Linux distro distracted me.

Almost anything can be turned into a bait and switch tactic if you look selectively as how it's positioned.

Re: The future of your Nokia Windows phone

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Originally Posted by BigBadGuber! (Post 956744)

Your example of addiction can be also applied to Nokia and Third World. Nokia is doing similar strategy to get people addicted to Symbian.

It sounds more like the strategy is to get people on to MS WP.

Mish