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  • Nokia was lead by engineers, which was it’s strength, but eventually also caused it’s downfall. This is why these things were so good.

    Engineers told that the fullscreen displays without keyboard is never as good as physical keyboard.

    Engineers told that 1 day battery life is not enough, the system need to be designed so that it can last a week.

    They were right.

    BUT apple’s marketing and slick design convinced the American market that you can give up on those features. Nokia could easily made the same design, but didn’t because engineers thought that users need those features. When they turned ship and accepted it, apple had its foot between the door already.



  • Nokia should have continued developing the Linux Qt system maemo/meego. I was working with it as subcontractor in Nokia, and it was awesome. The Qt/C++ was really fast to code, and you could basically port KDE apps into it with small effort.

    If they would have continued with it, we could have had three major OS in phones.

    I was leading architect in internal UI design tools, and the tools had features that android/apple toolsets not even now have. Mainly because you could run the Qt app with PC hardware without any emulation.







  • Hotzilla@sopuli.xyztoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldMFA
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    3 months ago

    Sorry, as IT person I have to disagree, app based MFA is just way much easier to maintain instead of HW keys.

    Edit: forgot to mention that in Finland companies here has to provide phone if your work require that. In IT I don’t want nothing to do with users personal devices, and it sounds insane to me that in US companies force apps to your personal devices.