Nokia CEO: We're Exploring Laptops
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Waittaminnit - this could be Huge...
japhyFeb 26, 2009, 1:52 PM
Depending on their product strategy, Nokia could fill/create a whole new niche of laptops/tablets/netbooks running specifically customized versions of Linux. So far, the majority of laptops are specifically designed with Windows in mind, with Linux available as an option, but not really something that works quite as well. Yes, there's been a few dabblings into Linux, but it's all been on hardware that serves a dual purpose of being Windows (Vista, or more commonly, XP) with a Linux option.
What Nokia could do is design the way Apple does: write the OS and software specifically for a very limited set of harware parameters. But: use an Open Source core so that there's a range of progams that could be easily ported in. Basically, a more c...
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.....lol......(in a good way)
What you just discribed is what ANY company could/should do. Nokia included. That could be a huge thing for Nokia....or anyone else that steps up and risks such a project.
Hell, HTC could turn around and do this....
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