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Originally Posted by shallimus View Post
Problem (from my perspective anyway) is that even though I work in a highly technical environment, probably half of the developers here have iPhones, and many of them will just get the 5 when it's available.

A straw poll of a few colleagues gives reasons for continuing with the iPhone such as:
  • I'm too invested in my app store/iTunes experience to change now
  • App store has apps
  • It's an iPhone! (said tongue in cheek, but she's still gonna get the 5)

Obviously I don't consider any of these to be good reasons, but they do, and they won't be buying an N9 even after conceding that in many ways it is objectively more desirable than the 4 (and maybe even the 5).
I think you make some good points. There is a lot of inertia to change and I don't think NOKIA has done a good job in staying in the game even if they make a superior product in many respects. I also work in a technical environment. Most "technical" people, that I know, including those that are very knowlegeable about linux have iphones. Many in management have BBs. Some of those linux people are getting a little tired of iphone but it is likely they will next go for android if they do decide to change. WP phones are nonexistent and nokia is invisible. I'm wondering if a better strategy for NOKIA would have been to,ok, swap symbian with windows and, I hate to say it, swap maemo/meego with android. From what I have read lately, interest in BB is begining to fall a little out of favor so, for the former, they would have to strongly link it to buisness of office applications, maybe xbox and other games so they have something to do at meetings... For the latter they could at least lay claim to having all the android apps (inferior or redundant as the may be by your view) and superior hardware. Ideally, for the android version make the bootloader unlocked so you could load maemo/meego or what ever flavor linux you want. Then the devlopers would be happy too as well as I!
 

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