Re: Till date how many internet tablets do you think were sold?
 

Hmm . . . interesting. I had a different source for the same talk (don't feel like trying to dig it up) and it said 300k N800's, not 300k 770s.

Re: Till date how many internet tablets do you think were sold?
 

Was that a general epiphany, or did you have something specific you wanted to direct at the rat you quoted?

Don't be shy!

:D

Re: Till date how many internet tablets do you think were sold?
 

Well... doh. I don't think anyone is quite stupid enough to need telling the above. The salient point is that this forum is much quitier thank I would expecct for a total user base of 500k. Especially given that this is an Intenet device, and users' need for support. I've seen forums for quite obscure hobbies and webcomics with much higher trraffic than this.

Re: Till date how many internet tablets do you think were sold?
 

Believing a platform owners claims about sales figures is about as reasonable as believing a politician's claims about what taxes will be if he is elected

Re: Till date how many internet tablets do you think were sold?
 

Registering in ITT is not mandatory. I used this forum for a month without being a registered user. I just registered to thank a solution to a problem I had.

Re: Till date how many internet tablets do you think were sold?
 

Yup. It was an Ari or Quim Q & A I believe. The quote was something of the effect that "Nokia was pleasently suprised that they had sold 300k of the N800" and that it "Certainly wasn't expected".

This was this past August or so. I think it was the same posted convo where the 5 steps of platform develelopment and the 770 was for uber geeks comments came from.

Re: Till date how many internet tablets do you think were sold?
 

Not necessarily..
Whenever I start a new browser window, it shows me a big splash screen with a prominent 'Tableteer' button. I imagine most users will sooner rather than later click this button. It says 'Get support' and other things above the button, after all.

On this page it immediately tells me that I have an old software version, and that I need to upgrade. There's also a link there to 'Remind me again when the software's available'. This would have taken care of the earlier SDHC corruption problem, eventually. It would also take care of the boot problem, although there's a potential catch 22 there of course..

On the same page there's a list of 'Featured downloads', and it changes all the time. There's also a presentation of a couple of applications, today I see Xournal and Maemo Mapper, with nice pictures.

In short, users won't be cut off from upgrades or great applications even if they've never heard of ITT, or if they do but choose to ignore it.

Re: Till date how many internet tablets do you think were sold?
 

I know 2 whom I give support directly. So you can count me as 3... ;)

Re: Till date how many internet tablets do you think were sold?
 

Exactly. I'm tech support for about 15 or so owners...

Re: Till date how many internet tablets do you think were sold?
 

And the same thing happens on other forums. And more to the point, so what? Unless you believe all of:

1. Almost everyone here is "tech support" for a horde of other users....

2. This phenomenon is unique to the NIT...

3. For some other, equally bizarre, reason NIT owners download far less software than other users (even though their machine is shipped bare of a PIM, even though the software is free and of good quality)...

...Then it's irrelevant.

For any device, there will be a few people on any forum who help out a crowd of other users, so comparisons of forums come pre-adjusted for the factor you're trying to "compensate" for.