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RETRACTION: #openstreetmap IS NOT blocking my favorite client.
But I DID jump to conclusions.
I'll try to be more thorough before complaining, even though I'm failing in recent cases.
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@ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill @tomiahonen @fuchsiii
And #MeeGo aka. #Maemo kinda was lauched dead in the water, with even less support than the #OpenMoko powered FIC Neo1973 in it's days, which was as approachable to #TechIlliterates as a F-22 cockpit to an illiterate…
Vivaldi SocialAJ Sadauskas (@ajsadauskas@vivaldi.net)@kkarhan@infosec.space @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange @fuchsiii@oxytodon.com On Nokia, I know @tomiahonen@mastodon.world is on Mastodon, and might be able to shed more light on what happened internally there?
But the short version is Nokia chose the worst of all possible worlds by going with Windows Phone.
Yeah, Symbian was reaching the end of its life. There were three choices to replace it:
a) MeeGo. Ended up only shipping on one phone: The Nokia N9 in 2011. People still rave about that phone today. Possibly the best option.
b) Android. Basically, what Nokia's successor HMD is doing, except they would have had far more momentum by going early.
c) Windows Phone. History shows how that multi-billion-dollar blunder worked out. And I liked WP. I used it for around a year at one point. But MSFT completely mishandled it.
As for Firefox OS, I think Mozilla completely misjudged the market for it.
No, the first market for an open source phone with an app ecosystem based on open web standards shouldn't have been underpowered devices for emerging economies.
It was for people who run Linux on the desktop at home, people who run deGoogled Android, and people who work in software development/IT/InfoSec.
A bit of #computinghistory : part 3 of "20 years of Linux on the desktop".
When mobile started to disrupt desktop computing…
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20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 3)
Read chapter 3 of the book I’m currently writing about the history of Linux on the desktop.
https://ploum.net/2025-03-08-linux_desktop3.html
Still looking for an agent or a publisher to make a dead-tree version of it…
ploum.net20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 3)
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@danct12 #Nokia did a (soft) launch party for the #N900 at the BFI on the South Bank in London in September 2009.
lcuk had had a prototype, so we were able to do a cool demo: https://youtu.be/yk27PenpAz0
_EDIT:_ I note wryly that Nokia's blog post about this is now on the #Microsoft website: https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2009/09/04/n900-to-appear-in-london-next-week/
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@murena @gael @e_mydata privacy is #non-android-based solutions ;) #postmarketos #maemo #ubuntutouch #manjaro #mobian #droidian ;)
i left everything touching gafam or android, google or ungoogled ;)
Zeit für etwas Wehklagen zwischendurch: Ich bin auf alle Zeiten verflucht!
Privat sitze ich an einer Linuxkiste und mit jedem Boot meines Pflicht-Windows-Arbeits-PC stolpere ich zwangsläufig über Dinge, die mir an Linux besser gefallen als an Windows.
Mit Smartphones ist es ähnlich. Hatte ein #N900, ein #Linux-Smartphone wenn man so will. Lange her. Seither leide ich unter #Android, wissend wie gut #maemo damals war.
Seelig sind die Unwissenden.
Sie wissen nicht was ihnen fehlt.
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@YoSoyFreeman I disagree re: #WindowsPhone but maybe that's just me who saw it and knew it's gonna be #DoA like #Maemo, #MeeGo, #OpenMoko and #FirefoxOS...
More [self-]sabotaged than anything...
TBH, if I had to get a new Smartphone that I can actually use I'd be stuck with another #Fairphone3plus, a #ShiftPhone or a #PinePhone...
I got myself a little N900 a couple of weeks ago. The USB port was busted (completely off lol), but I got some new batteries and an external charger. And now it lives! It's running maemo 5 from 2011 so a lot of stuff just doesn't work. Which is fine. I'm going to replace the usb port and then try maemo leste on it. The fact that a modern OS is available for such an ancient device is so great!
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@mjg59 There was "The Story of Nokia's #Maemo & #MeeGo" by Sampsa Kurri. Original link 404s, but it's archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20121030094913/http://taskumuro.com/artikkelit/the-story-of-nokia-meego
I also remember a series of blogs by another insider, talking of the wider context of what was going on at #Nokia. Memory (and Google) failing me though.
web.archive.orgThe story of Nokia MeeGoOn February 11th, 2011, Nokia published its new strategy and made a co-operation agreement with Microsoft. Windows Phone operating system was chosen as the new platform for Nokia smartphones. MeeGo became an open source mobile operating system project, which, in the long term, would be used for market research on next generation devices, platforms, and user experiences.
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@Edent What a memory lane.
I got Nokia N900 (#Maemo! CLI. <3) and HTC Sense (my second Android after the G1 afaik) from 2010. Graffiti is the oldest third party app I remember. It allowed people to draw on the wall of friends. I had to look up what the Flock browser did. Apparently it tried to make browsing more social/integrated with social media platforms.