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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
Excuse my harshness here... but it's incredibly daft to believe that something released would not be wanted to sell millions. Why the **** would you release something and hope that it doesn't sell millions?

Seriously... that's the oft-repeated mantra part that makes me wonder if any of you folks at TMO understand what marketshare, marketing and above all why you produce any thing at all and then sell it only to sell it to your very small niche/clique of friends which ultimately lands it in jeopardy in regards to future support and releases.

Makes zero business sense unless you want it to fail.



It's in a state where repair, retooling and making it modern would cost more, thus it would end up changing its market positioning.

It's an investment that they might not have been willing to make even before Elop came aboard.

Didn't want it to sell millions. Seriously!?
Seriously!
dixit Jo Harlow, Executive Vice President, Smart Devices the N9 is an early-adopter tech geek device.
the same as the N900.

they certainly didn't intend the N900 to move masses, but even the N9 was not aimed at the average customer.
that's maybe why they have all those Symbian devices rolling out?
they know it is not future proof any more, but it still has enough juice in it to sell a few million of units for every model that comes out.
and S40 is here to stay, thus Symbian^3, however distantly (un-)related can carry on as well.

will have to, once wp vanishes quicker then it ghosted around and Symbian will be all that NOKIA will be left with.