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		dijit 31 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality They were really trying with MeeGo, we used to joke that we had the most expensive clock app in the world because it had been remade so many times. People forget that R&D can be super expensive. Apple definitely cooked there. Symbian though, I mean, considering the hardware constraints was crazy! The smartphone variant of Symbian needed 2MiB of Memory and supported Qt... madness.

walterbell 31 days ago [–]

We need a Symbian/Nokia movie to accompany the "Blackberry" movie, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXL_HDzBQsM

  Mike, are you familiar with the saying, "Perfect is the enemy of Good"?

  Well, "good enough" is the enemy of humanity.

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