30 June 2008

Random Thoughts:
How Has The Platform Hack Changed You?

Before FCA saved us, I was a different person. I used to deceive myself and others, telling them that S60 is an open platform and that it's great and customizable.

However, I can now see that the truth is that S60 is one step away from being as locked down as the iPhone.

There's deliberate limitations put in place by Nokia that limit the way we use our phones greatly, varying from phone to phone. So what if we could install some apps? They're all apps that Nokia said we could use...

Think of it like this - If you were 18 and your parents gave you a list of different people that you were allowed to get into bed with and a list for those you couldn't, would you consider yourself as an adult with freedom and independence?

Thanks to FCA00000, my eyes have been opened to how deceptive Nokia truly are. They are liars and thieves, scumbags, criminals, assholes... Choose whatever words you'd use to describe them with, it's all the same. Claiming that an OS as locked down as S60 is "open to anything"? Do they think we're stupid or what?

I'd loveto hear YOUR opinions?!?

Deliberate software differences between E-series and N-series although they run the same OS. Features in Feature Pack II that could easily be ported back to FP1 (and they should have been in FP1 from the beginning) but instead, they expect us to buy one of their s**t new devices like the N96 for example.

So, why do I keep buying Nokia devices? Because they still have the best hardware and FCA00000 has saved S60. He really should be heralded as the Messiah of S60.

Has your view of Nokia/S60 changed thanks to the hack? Do you use your phone in a different way now? Do you think FCA00000 saved S60?

I'd love to hear YOUR opinions?!?

Nice topic. I will give my ideas. Obviously, it has changed my life. Now I am famous. But I think that for most people, Nokia simply makes phones.

Those phones takes photographs, play songs, include some games, support GPS navigation, and allow voice calls. What else do they want? It's only relatevly a few people who want to do extra things. And this is not Nokia's point of attention. Not saying that they are against power-users ; it's just that they don't matter. For good, and for bad.

Nevertheless I admit that it's the most open-phones I have ever seen, since the old times from S60v1. Much program-customizable than Blackberry, Palm, Siemens, the Java-phones, or iPhone.

Most people agree that it's good to have protection. The problem is that it would had been better if the user had been able to disable as he wished.

In a way, it's like a bar that serves 40-alcohol vodka, and not 90-alcohol absinthe. Sure, they provide alcoholic drinks and therefore should be labelled as a 'bar', isn't it?

As I see it, the hack brough a couple of patches, 1 or 2 applications, the n-gage cracking, and several interesting findings. And took a lot of my time.

Remember: Symbian was open in S60v2 times, and few people needed/used the openess. Well, it allowed me to overclock mi phone (I always thank Vovan888 for that).

The Trash Heap has spoken! Nyeah! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraggle_Rock)