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-   -   Indications on how well the N900 is selling (https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=41798)

gryedouge 2010-05-04 16:50
Re: Indications on how well the N900 is selling
 
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Originally Posted by benny1967 (Post 494621)
i wonder if they're having high return rates (like they had with the n800) or if consumers read the specs before and knew what they bought.

if the return rates are reasonably low, this is most probably not quite what nokia expected. ;)
I was thinking about this as well...considering the number of forum posters who keep proclaiming that they are returning their '900s I am surprised at the apparent sales growth, as mentioned in this thread.

Texrat 2010-05-04 16:53
Re: Indications on how well the N900 is selling
 
You'll know a product like the N900 is selling well when a significant third-party accessory ecosystem builds up around it.

ysss 2010-05-04 17:15
Re: Indications on how well the N900 is selling
 
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Originally Posted by Enyibinakata (Post 642710)
too many yanks on the web ?
I know there are plenty of instances that the (usually us-based) media over-estimates the US' role in the world.

But in this case I think you're underestimating them...

benny1967 2010-05-04 18:16
Re: Indications on how well the N900 is selling
 
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Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 642749)
Yo'll know a product like the N900 is selling well when a significant third-party accessory ecosystem builds up around it.
seems to be the case. this is the first maemo-device they offer accessories for at all in "my local internet" (=popular sites/shops from central europe like amazon.de)

screen protectors, pouches, car mounts, chargers...
it'll be difficult to offer other things (like headphones/usb accessories/...) for the N900 as long as nokia keeps this annoying habit of using standard connectors ;)

Texrat 2010-05-04 18:23
Re: Indications on how well the N900 is selling
 
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Originally Posted by benny1967 (Post 642963)
seems to be the case. this is the first maemo-device they offer accessories for at all in "my local internet" (=popular sites/shops from central europe like amazon.de)

screen protectors, pouches, car mounts, chargers...
it'll be difficult to offer other things (like headphones/usb accessories/...) for the N900 as long as nokia keeps this annoying habit of using standard connectors ;)
Docking stations are to me the best indicator of industry acceptance for mobile devices. They're all over for iProducts.

Of course, some car mounts for the N900 have them, so that's a good sign.

tirtawn 2010-05-04 18:23
Re: Indications on how well the N900 is selling
 
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Originally Posted by zombiegavins (Post 639889)
how is the 5800 so high on that list? I had one before I got my n900 and the camera was crap!
true, so thats why now its stay at home and become battery charger for n900 :)

On the side note: 5800 is better than nuron for the camera.

Ken-Young 2010-05-04 18:51
Re: Indications on how well the N900 is selling
 
This will not be of much use in calculating the total number of N900s in the wild, but I have made the same app (orrery) available for the Openmoko and Maemo 5 platforms. Two months after the Maemo 5 version was available in Extras it had three times as many downloads as the Openmoko version had had in two years. Of course, only about 20,000 Openmoko phones were sold.

ysss 2010-05-04 19:01
Re: Indications on how well the N900 is selling
 
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Originally Posted by Ken-Young (Post 643064)
This will not be of much use in calculating the total number of N900s in the wild, but I have made the same app (orrery) available for the Openmoko and Maemo 5 platforms. Two months after the Maemo 5 version was available in Extras it had three times as many downloads as the Openmoko version had had in two years. Of course, only about 20,000 Openmoko phones were sold.
How many times was the openmoko version downloaded, two months after you made the software available back then?

Ken-Young 2010-05-04 20:32
Re: Indications on how well the N900 is selling
 
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Originally Posted by ysss (Post 643088)
How many times was the openmoko version downloaded, two months after you made the software available back then?
I don't have those numbers, but I'm sure that the rate of Maemo 5 downloads just after release is more than two orders of magnitude larger than the number of Openmoko downloads just after release. At peak, I was getting about two downloads per minute from the Maemo Extras repository.

Patroclo 2010-05-04 20:58
Re: Indications on how well the N900 is selling
 
It would be interesting to see a plot of the ratio number of n900 sold/number of iphone sold vs the month.


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