Thread: Now it's official: Maemo 5 and the N900 launch!
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2009-11-17 , 17:43
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Originally Posted by daperl View Post
It took Apple 2 years to support MMS, and in The States, it took AT&T about another 4 after that. Think about the message it would send if shortly after the n900 release, the community implements MMS. We can build and flash our own kernel (I hope). Maybe it's an OSS blessing in disguise. This kind of thing could attract developers and consumers. And if I've been reading the MMS threads correctly, I think it already has.
I don't even care much about MMS myself, but I think this is a great perspective. I agree that this could be a great and exciting opportunity to showcase OSS. Thanks for posting this idea. I agree with you 100%.
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