Nokia should have made it clear that it's important. But I'm willing to bet the userbase was far too small, so anything financial wouldn't be worthwhile.
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Then it starts with Nokia, right? If it's not important to Nokia, then the message was never sent.
Gerbick, you're making rank assumptions.
You don't know what was or wasn't communicated from Nokia to Skype. But it would be helpful for you to consider that Nokia had a vested interest in use of the webcam.... soooo... do the math.
This thread started with someone saying he would switch from N800 to the Samsung Mondi. I don't even know, does the Mondi has Skype? Why they got it? And is this really the main advantage of it? There's nothing else to discuss regarding mondi vs. NITs?
I would enjoy a world where people can run SIP servers in their own homes, and call each other by their IPv6 numbers. If Nokia is pointing at that direction, I prefer suffer a bit longer in the "non-supported" lane and join the revolution.
I don't even know that much people to call anyway. There is my girlfriend, and I made her install Gizmo at her computer. It worked, we had our fun.
You know what? I don't even want to talk to people that are not capable of installing something different than Skype of whatever unique "just one click" program they learn to use. That is lame. I don't want to talk to lammers!
Of course, if you really need to run skype or gtalk with video in your tablet right now, well, go ahead and buy something that support it. If you reeeeally need something you must go ahead and but the thing and that's it. Why talk about it? If that iw your only use for the thing, and the NITs don't do it, it's sad but true, just drop the thing and move to the other tablet, good luck with your new life.
Now, I do ask myself what Nokia is thinking... Of course I love it that they are working with FLOSS right now. But I must confess I have a bad feeling this won't last long. No company would, or should like to know people are not buying a product of theirs because of a small functionality one step away to be implemented.
People say no IT employee was ever fired to recommend their bosses to buy IBM products. We could imagine if a Nokia employee would ever be fired to suggest their bosses to make a tablet that is 100% Skype and GTalk and MSN compatible. (I've heard flash 10 is also a problem.)
The bosses up in Finland must be pretty much sure of themselves to keep up this proposal of not being completely compatible with lots of mainstream software, and betting in FLOSS, open standards and developing a developers community, etc. I hope so...
History points a bit in that direction, actually. Finland was kind of a neutral zone in WWII and after. They remained independent, not completely compatible with other large states.
So I finish this confusing message asking: Are we fighting a war where a modern day Simo Häyhä wields a Maemo tablet? Will we keep our independence?
I owned one(posted my experiences on pocketables.net two years ago). The device is better than the N810(literally does everything better and faster).
But neither device is worthy of a buy in 2011 imo. Just too much better stuff out there, including supersized cellphones. In '09 when it dropped.. The only comp were overpriced UMPC's, and underequipped ipod touches.
That being said, if maemo ever made it to the Mondi, it would be worth it as an inexpensive pda/media device. But the CPU is a dog, being the rev. a version of Samsung S3C6410.. lacking OGLES 1.0
