So is not selling a good thing? Think about that before you answer.

If selling something is an activity that you don't want to engage, then you don't release it then. Selling is an activity that any business that wants to sell an item and make money from it. The development, support, et al costs money, but last I checked, Nokia knows how to make money from selling hardware.

That's where management of resources comes into play. Yet again, you're making common sense, but not business sense. I'd love to hear (besides razor blades and videogame systems) a retailer that sales at a loss by not selling a few million because it's an "activity" that they have to engage, because they "can" or think they should never sell to millions and still have a viable release. Maemo isn't a limited edition release. Why treat it as such?

And why have rhetoric that you intend on it becoming a consumer device if you never wanted any iteration of it before the final step 5 of 5 to be sold in millions.

Makes no ****ing sense. It's that kind of mentality that's driven the stock prices down, made this website more of a cult than niche and ultimately has sealed the destiny of the N9 - it'll sell only as well, if not slightly better than any iteration before it. And that's not enough to save it.

So yeah... continue to think that it not selling in millions was "smart" or the right way to go. Come back next year when you see those decisions affect this site, other developers and how it's driven the Nokia stock to a new low.

Seriously... makes no sense. Stupidest thing I've read all day.

Neither. Every company I know that's not a charity wants their stuff to sell in the millions. If the N900 and other Maemo devices were not intended to sell by the millions, then you've identified the problem.

****ed up management, ****ed up mentality around how you should/shouldn't sell something, ****ed up mentality of the users.

Seriously ****ed up.