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- | + | I have started Maemo outarech activity in my area (Dallas) and not surprisingly ran into the old question from the first group I approached (open source enthusiasts): "why should I buy this?"That's something I've really been thinking about, and one answer comes to mind: "because it could easily connect you with everything else you own."Your handheld Maemo device could be the portable "glue", the physical portal to all of your experiences. You can't carry your desktop PC around, and laptops aren't always practical, but something like the N900 goes everywhere and anywhere.The problem is that the platform is not quite there yet. Almost. Losing USB OTG and Samba shares sure didn't help-- both are part of that solution and need to be brought back. But Nokia and or the maemo.org community need to figure out how to get the N900 and future devices to easily and seamlessly connect a user's personal ecosystem, physical and cloud.So how do we do this? |
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I have started Maemo outarech activity in my area (Dallas) and not surprisingly ran into the old question from the first group I approached (open source enthusiasts): "why should I buy this?"That's something I've really been thinking about, and one answer comes to mind: "because it could easily connect you with everything else you own."Your handheld Maemo device could be the portable "glue", the physical portal to all of your experiences. You can't carry your desktop PC around, and laptops aren't always practical, but something like the N900 goes everywhere and anywhere.The problem is that the platform is not quite there yet. Almost. Losing USB OTG and Samba shares sure didn't help-- both are part of that solution and need to be brought back. But Nokia and or the maemo.org community need to figure out how to get the N900 and future devices to easily and seamlessly connect a user's personal ecosystem, physical and cloud.So how do we do this?