Really sad to see that Nokia didn't have the confidence in their hardware design and manufacture skill to give Android a chance.
You know, lack of confidence can be a realistic assesment.
Nokia's has been notorious for their lack of precision in gap dimensions (i'm not sure if that is the correct term as english is not my first language, and I'm not a mechanical engineer). As a result, stuff can get in front of your display and ambient humidity can get to the electronics.
It's been this way for ages.
That was maybe acceptable 10 years ago. But today, as you can buy superbly assembled phones from chinese and korean manufacturers, I think they won't be able to differentiate themselves from other android phones.
In a positive sense, at least.
Thats a dumb argument, usually names are translated. I bet they don't call it "Microsoft Office" in Germany. Also the development team is English speaking for the most part.
Nope. It's called Microsoft Office pretty much everywhere in the world. That is the trick when you want to establish a globally recognizable trademark. You find something that doesn't hurt your eyes in any of the world's most important languages.
A typical developer can imho live with just about any old product name, that is why there have been wacky code names since basically forever.
It's just that they don't change it to something useful when they release anymore.
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And that's where GPL3 goes too far IMO. Sure, you'd like your iPad to be unlocked. But it isn't - so don't buy one. Would you rather that iPad users not be able to access Windows shares - to the benefit of Windows tablets and a potential monoculture?
Apple is a relatively wealthy corporation. They sell proprietary devices to great profit. They can for sure afford to write - or fork - their own flavour of appropriately (for their needs) licensed SMB-share interaction software.
Whatever one may think of the GPL v3 (I, personally, don't like some parts of it all that much), it's not like Apple is entitled to use software whose writers specificaly chose to use a license deliberately incompatible with their current business model.
Where do I sign up?
Well, that's engineers for you. To them, humans are at best dirt in the machine.
Come on, no Real Engineer would consider you mere dirt. It's just that we have a unique viewpoint on the human condition...
What still baffles the social, philosophical and economical sciences, what remains a mystery even for biology, medicine, and - of course - theatre science, is awfully plain to see with unnerving razor sharp clarity only when viewed from the eyes of a properly trained engineer!
For me, for example, you are 100 pF and 1.5K of resistance to ground.
Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge.