Nokia Plans to Start Making Netbooks

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/technology/companies/25nokia.html?_r=1&ref=technology

by newacc • 17 years ago

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TweedHeads• 17 years ago

"Its first netbook, the Nokia Booklet 3G, will use Microsoft’s Windows software and Intel’s Atom processor"

There, doomed.

If you don't extend your arms to the open source community, don't expect us to open our arms when you need us.

Fuck you Nokia.

imp• 17 years ago

The analyst quoted in the article thinks that it may just be an experiment for now. Maybe using Windows is the quickest way for them to get to market and test their product. Just because they chose Windows for this first launch doesn't mean they won't use open source for netbooks in the future.

newacc3• 17 years ago

I just can't wait for my browser to becomes my OS - it would be a game changing scenario - it won't matter what is pre-installed, you'll be able to switch your OS in a second ... it won't even matter what h/w you are using (PC on intel, MAC on intel, Linux on whatever) ....

i wonder how much a h/w platform or pre-installed s/w would matter in one's life when a browser is your new OS and almost all your apps are on the cloud !!!

gloob3• 17 years ago

Who wrote the browser? The window manager? The compiler, assembler, and linker? What about computer games? I don't see us doing Crysis in Javascript any time soon.

The web is great for some things, but some things aren't everything.

shiranaihito• 17 years ago

Arrington? Is it you?

pavlov• 17 years ago

Huh. Nokia is pretty much the #1 sugar daddy of open source in the mobile tech business. In the past year, they have:

* Bought Symbian and open-sourced the entire OS.

* Bought Trolltech, relicensed the Qt toolkit to LGPL, and developed new Python bindings from scratch.

* Poured investment into Maemo, including 3G phone support (check out the upcoming Nokia N900).

They're just testing the waters with this new Windows 7 notebook. (Did you notice that the screenshots are mostly showing Ovi Suite 2.0 which is Qt-based and will be available on Linux as well?)

Nokia Plans to Start Making Netbooks

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