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<Ryan45> Nokia is going to be looking for a dancing partner as soon as Microsoft divorces them.
<Transhumanist> There are proprietary parts of Android.
<Ryan45> which wont be long.
<Transhumanist> Microsoft will probably watch Nokia crash and burn and then purchase them. After all, the guy running Nokia now is a Microsoft plant.
<Ryan45> nokia is probably nice tax write off :)
<jo-erlend> I had a Nokia N900 which I really loved until the USB port was broken. I had guarantee, so I sent it in. They replaced it with an N8. I love the hardware, but the OS doesn't cut it. I wonder if Nokia would be "allowed" to offer both WP and UP. They would certainly be an attractive hardware manufacturer.
<Transhumanist> My N900 is sitting next to my mouse at the moment.
<Transhumanist> N900 was a wonderful phone. But Nokia never pushed it. They never marketted it.
<jo-erlend> yes, for some strange reason.
<Transhumanist> Nokia is a much more socially responsible company than Samsung or Apple, so it is sad to see them die.
<jo-erlend> but they've made nice phones all along. Their problem has been the OS.
<Ryan45> I still don't like the idea of trying to get a peice of the existing pie.
<jo-erlend> why?
<Ryan45> Need to sell to people who dont like pie :)
<Transhumanist> I don't really think Canonical are trying to get a piece of the pie. I think they're trying to bake a better pie.
<Ryan45> reinvent the wheel
<Ryan45> lol
<jo-erlend> in any case, computing is not a mature market by any means.
<Ryan45> Firefox Phone, Ubuntu Phone, up soon, Angry Birds Phone
<Transhumanist> Canonical are trying to elimninate device categories. Conflate laptops, tablets, desktops into a single device. Your smartphone is a phone normally, but dock it and it's a desktop. Or put it inside a laptopdock case and it's a laptop. Or a tablet dock case and it is a tablet.
<Ryan45> you just do the sling back motion to launch apps
<Transhumanist> So you grab your phone out of the dock in the monring, head to work, chuck it in the dock.
<Ryan45> yeah, m