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N9 was a work of art. Fuck Elop.
by mlajtos 3y ago
N9 was a work of art. Fuck Elop.
- fsloth 3y agoIn general software seems to be really hard for hardware companies. This was the main reason for the downfall IMO. The things that make you succeed in hardware do not suffice, and are partly wrong in software. The N9 etc demonstrated there was enough talent for a plausible pivot. Was it business wise obvious this would have been the only and right choice?
- scrubs 3y agoAgree: Japanese and German manufacturing and materials know how? Lengendary. Software? Hmmmm.
- inglor_cz 3y agoI programmed for Symbian OS. The dialect of C++ was pure hell, and the wanton diversity of products meant that there was no chance to get consistent UI over a chock-full of models whose selling potential was unknown in advance. Theoretically, there were standards such as Series 60. Practically, those were full of compatibility breaks and just weird idiosyncrasies. Screen dimensions, available APIs, everything varied as if designed by a team of competing drunk sailors, and you could always plunge a week of work into fine-tuning your app for a platform that flopped. Unlike Apple, there just wasn't any software consistency. Some of the products were great, some were terrible, and all were subtly incompatible with one another.
- justsomehnguy 3y ago> Fuck Elop It wasn't Elop who drove Nokia to the state it was in 2009. "Burning Platform" is from 2011. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35030334 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35030334