Thread: Who is going to make a geek phone?
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2011-06-22 , 17:51
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Originally Posted by Daneel View Post

The chances of such device are slim at best hence this thread.
I am pretty confident that many of the TMO members and other IT enthusiasts not limited to the TMO realm have similar needs as mine.

Some of those will take the "one step forward, two steps back" and buy the N9, others wont.

Are those others so few that no big company finds it profitable enough to design a device according to the needs of those others?
The reason was alluded to by Gerbick. Cellphones with mass consumer appeal command high prices and garner good profit margins. Add to that the "ecosystem" related profits. No big company wants to forego those profits for a low profit margin open phone. Nokia flirted with it, but has now turned away. Our hope is the Tier 3 manufacturer who can't hope to compete for those same profits as the big companies. In the past, they might have turned to Android, hopefully they will turn to MeeGo in the future and we can leverage from there with what we have in the community.
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