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Nokia design chief spending a third of his time on future tablet

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A third of his time only? I guess it will be one third as good as the concurrent then?

That was my first thought too. I wonder how much of his time Jony Ive spent working on the first iPad.

Considering that this tablet will be a Microsoft Windows 8 OEM model, the only design aspects he needs to worry about is the placement of the Nokia logo and choice of colors.

Seems about right. Windows 8 Tablets will be about 1/3 as good as iPads so they're right on schedule.

Why? Why would Nokia want to enter the tablet market, when everyone except Apple is struggling with their tablets? Consumers seem to want ipads, not tablets. What could Nokia possibly bring to the table, with their string of failures in the recent past? This is probably going to be another half-assed effort on Nokia's part.

As far as anecdotal evidence is admitted, I am a very happy user of a Nokia N900 tablet. So are other folks focused around http://maemo.org. Its lineage goes back to 2005 (N770). This isn't question of entering a new market, it's a logical continuation of a long-time trend.

I just bought another N900 because my current one is a bit long in the tooth, and my fear of being N900-less is huge. Right now, all of my hopes are focused on WebOS and Tizen. The HP Touchpad is really pleasant, and would be awesome running on a GPL'd stack.

I'm really going to miss the Maemo 5 UI, though.

Because Microsoft NEEDS Win8 on tablets(that people actually want to use) or MS will be dead.

Nokia married Microsoft some time ago, Microsoft had the cash Nokia needed, Nokia made good quality hardware that Microsoft needed to compete with Apple. MS paid Nokia billions for not using Android and abandoning Symbian.

If necessary Microsoft will buy Nokia at a discount, but they can't let Apple and Google to convince people that they don't need Windows in their computers.

I'm pretty excited for it. Their new windows phones are pretty nice devices.

Nokia was bought by Microsoft. (Not legally on paper, but de facto.)

Thus, Nokia will now probably be one of the 'official' partners in Microsoft's Yet Another Clone Apple gamble. (Windows 8.)

Until Nokia goes out of business, that is. The perils of partnering with Microsoft!

You know, I'm not sure this Marko Ahtisaari guy has any other merits besides being the son of our former President Martti Ahtisaari (who postured himself into getting a Nobel peace prize, but did absolutely nothing as President).

It's highly doubtful he has the required talent for being chief designer at Nokia, or any company for that matter.

Wow a full 33% of his work day (2-3 hours per day) he's working on something new while the company slips further behind the competition. Are we supposed to congratulate Nokia?

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