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

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Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 168684)

... Man, you are REALLY hung up on this dishonesty bit! Wow. I relenquish my cyncism crown--

Agreed...

BTW, I'll pick up on the cynicism a bit. :)

I find it difficult to believe that a company would base its decisions to go to market with a port on forum membership numbers. :rolleyes:

It must not be a very good product and expects low adoption rates or its a company with little experience in this market.

Also; Why is the total cost justification of a debian/armel port associated with just the NIT?

Talk about strawman arguments, looks more like a fishing expedition to me... Using red herring as bait. :)

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BTW, I guess 682,312...

What do I win if I'm right?
Is this like one of those guess how many jelly beans are in the jar contests?

Is there a big *** bowl in a hardware store somewhere in Finland filled to the brim with Internet Tablets or suttin'???

:D

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

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Originally Posted by meanwhile (Post 168521)

Another good tool to use is Froogle - see how many places sell a product, then watch the ones that show inventory. You have to weight by various factors to do with outlet size and specialization, so you get a very fuzzy answer, but this is a lot better than listening to what people want you to believe for their own purposes. Doing this got me an estimate of a few thousand Nit's a year sold in the UK.

This is not necessarily incompatible with 300K units sold worldwide (US and Europe together have about 10 times the population of the UK).

Maybe we should compare with sales of smartphones. In 2006, there were 71 millions smartphones sold worldwide, more than half from Nokia. Incidently, the US smartphone market was about 6 millions that year, but about doubled in 2007. Of course, the Nokia tablets are not sold worldwide (they are absent from the huge Chinese market which was 10 millions phones in 2006 and 14 in 2007, and from the even bigger Japanese market, which totals a third of smartphone sales, for example), so a figure of over a million sold leads to the tablet grabbing a sizeable percentage of the smartphone market, at least 2%. I find it hard to believe that.

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

I think people here overestimate eagerness of people to push possibilities of their hardware and generally knowing more. ITs are advertised as "web browser" in many forms (www, mail, rss, skype) and it comes fully featured for that. Why should users look for more?

Also in that debate two sides carefully forgot one event (for different reasons): Christmas Debacle with Nokia's melted servers. To bring servers to their knees you need really big traffic or totally incompetent admins. Why I believe in some weakness on Nokia's side regarding PR I refuse to believe that total *****s set up servers. So, I think the most logical reason is big, big traffic brought by automatic updates.

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

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Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 168397)

Yeah, his posts convey a little irritation with us platform-preacher-loving incompetents, don't they? :D

well, if the shoe fits... :p

::::::runnnssss over to somewhere safe like the ebook people:::::::::