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borellini··on Motorola Razr V3 Cellphone: The trend-setter that shouldn't have existed
They are not the same. Even though Nokia is infamous for not being able to produce a solid smartphone platform that would actually attract app developers, their feature phones (and Sony Ericsson's, too) were always known for having more finished, polished and faster UX when compared to competition like Siemens and Motorola.

The Nokia-branded feature phones produced during Microsoft's ownership and ones produced currently by HMD Global are based on somewhat horrible generic Chinese feature phone platforms and lack the finish and localisation. HMD likes to call one of them Series 30+. Nokia's Series 30 is easy to use and reliable feature phone platform, Series 30+ is not.

borellini··on 1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (2001)
And in 2018 with Internet connections a bit better than a 28.8k modem and hardware slightly more powerful than Pentium 90, the HD remake of AoE2 fails to deliver a reliable multiplayer gameplay, having lag of multiple seconds and at least as many out-of-sync bugs as the original game did 20 years ago. It should be closer to 150 than 1500 archers with the HD edition.
borellini··on Web DRM moves to next phase, Defective by Design to continue opposition
You must remember that also before EME, Netflix & co. were using DRM.

EME makes it possible to view the DRM'd content (that is there with or without EME) without installing horrible and unaccessible generic binary add ons (Silverlight, Flash) and thus gives more freedom to users. Now a Netflix heavy user can choose to consume the content on Linux, too.