Thread: N9 [Shipping]: It's finally here [for some]!
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jalyst is offline jalyst
2011-08-12 , 22:21
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Originally Posted by selfish_russian View Post
Eff'in pentile on N9:
Damn!
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=74802&page=8

Originally Posted by mikecomputing View Post
ROTFL so you really think it will sell well without marketing resources not a chance.
I will buy the deviced but with lack of marketing it will fail globally. It mayh sell well in northeurope and ausstria but the rest it will fail thanks too Elop and his Microsoftteam...
I think we're getting a bit carried away with Elop/Management evil this, & incompetent that.
It does actually still seem to be a fairly aggressive release worldwide:
http://mynokiablog.com/2011/08/12/no...-on-august-15/
See comments also.....

Sure UK/US/DE/ES etc. may not get it period....
But almost everywhere else seems to be getting it, if not via carriers, then def. via plenty of retail availability.
And many of those countries do seem to be getting carrier availability now too.

Lets just let things evolve a bit more, I'm not so sure Elop's deliberately trying to kill it now.
Maybe he/management will try to push it hard in markets where Symbian's traditionally been strongest, at least for now.

But I'll only believe that if I see it followed-up with strong marketing, & stronger help w/commercial apps/ecosystem.
Which previous Maemo devices never really had, because Symbian always won the priority/funding arguments etc.

Random Readings:
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Last edited by jalyst; 2011-08-12 at 22:34.
 

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