S60 Open to new features

The Register doesn’t seem to think much of our widgets ideas! The security questions are very real, and something we’re thinking about a great deal. Security is the reason why the first iteration of widgets don’t have any access to data in “the rest of” the phone. But that argument about the developer community: “The implication that more developers means better software has been demolished many times…” is just boneheaded; we’re not talking about adding more professional programmers to a single development project.

As for Nokia betting it’s future on this area, come on, the people working on widgets amount to about .01 percent of Nokia. We would love to get from the company the kind of attention we’d have if our work was considered that important! Quite the opposite; who exactly is it that buys a mobile phone because of the browser it has?

Criticism is okay, and the writer’s is nowhere near as harsh or thoughtful as what we dish out internally. I just wish it wasn’t so “dashed off” without some better thinking put into it; then it would be more helpful. Oh well, I know what it’s like to have a deadline and have to fill some empty screens with something readable!