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.

Reviving the old 3310 got Nokia back into every store in Europe. It really doesn't matter whether those phones are any good or not, because they're not a priority, they're just a gimmick.

They're just a gimmick that's a complete win from a marketing side though. I know Nokia, I've seen their new feature phones everywhere, I've found out that they have sturdy, decent smartphones now (like the 7 plus) running Android One, and I've made three purchases from them this year.

Having a mix of Perl and Batch files, using the Symbian C++ dialect did help on that.

But the platform was actually getting quite good before the burning platforms memo thanks to PIPS and Qt, oh well.

I have an old 6101 and a new HMD 130. The new one works fine, I don't feel that there is anything wrong with the software.

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.

This is one of the many reasons why I refuse to buy AoE2. The "new" version does not offer multi-platform support, it does not offer a stable multiplayer, it requires half a gigabyte of RAM instead of the previous 32MB, and it still costs as much as I pay these days for some of the smaller but brand new games (not one they made profit on for almost twenty years already without any maintenance).

if you play it on voobly versus steam, there is almost no lag and plays super smooth

the unreliable gameplay is mainly on steam. if you go play aoe2 on voobly, the lag basically disappears and feels smooth as butter.

If you own the hd version, there is a patch to freely convert it to voobly.

This might be a side-effect of CPUs being much less deterministic than the older hardware, leading to even harder to track down out-of-sync bugs.

CPU timing might be more non-deterministic, but the result should still be the same...

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.

You still need to install horrible binary plugins available only for a small set of platforms.