I wonder why still many people here being provoked by the thread starter. Invalid evidence, invalid reasoning, that's all what he got.
And I still love to feed the troll, but only for fun.
i guess he is right fellows.
this is not about comparing n900 and iphone or any other nokia phone with iphone
it's about this forum.
you should see some other forum sites.we dont have that much of communication between members here.we dont have a good transference of information either
Anyway, I think that we can all agree that even in this obvious flamebait thread, posted by a known troll, we were able to have a civil and deep discussion. That says enough about the community imho.
And I just wish that you were right about the "known troll".
It possible to ascertain how much of the N900 community is new [i.e. attracted by launch of N900 as opposed to being long time internettablettalk/talk.maemo.org person?]
iPhone communities have had much longer time time to develop than N900 (ignoring previous tablets which most people probably had not heard of - N900 is a more consumer friendly device so bringing in wider range of audience)
edit:
By any chance, is there any way of getting my old account from ITT?
Finally someone who actually reads. Did you others not notice that I just signed up to an obscure forum that noone reads? I will not post the same thing under OrangeBox on the official iPhone forum because there'd be cyberstalkers from this forum coming after me.
Oooh, cyber stalkers. You're like the Harrison Ford of the internets.
I turned up with zero knowledge of Maemo, linux or the way this community works. ...
Never once have I been told to 'RTFM' - though I have been pointed to the wiki a few times (most helpfully, I might add).
I am glad you feel welcome. Thing is, "feeling welcome" and actually getting help are sometimes two very separate things. You should be told to RTFM, because such are the inner workings of the Linux community, that you have no chance of progressing beyond a certain point, unless you pick up the art of self study. The sooner the better.
In my opinion, being told to rtfm is never a bad thing.
[Edit / Afterthought]: I almost did not send this, after realizing whom I was answering to. You've shown to be a very pleasant community member and I felt my message was kind of harsh. But I'll be sending it anyway, just to prove that no matter how cool you are, you still need to rtfm at some point ). Merry x-mas!
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