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Originally Posted by casper27 View Post
@ericsson
I don't really see the N9 or WP becoming the next "must have" any time soon but by naming convention alone alot of people are going to "upgrade" anyways from the E7 and N8. As you stated the shing new one piece case and fast browser with the usual supsects in app support will be enough for most general users to jump on board. It is only about a month after that those people will realise that they have actually upgraded to a discontinued OS. Whilst the phone may be great I can see it causing a lot of issues, I think even on here we will see a lot more general users coming on asking about updates and such as we are sybolically linked to the N9 and Meego.
I my self will still be buying one as soon as it is released as usual but I have not misconceptions about what to expect and will probably be quite happy with my new toy untill something even sparklier comes out.
My point was (although it ended up being hard to see ), that you are already into Elops concept of ecosystem that you are making jokes about all the time. That's why I asked "had a chance for what exactly ?". But I got carried away with other things

What is a phone? Is it a ticket into an ecosystem, or is it a device? Probably a bit of both. What is MeeGo? Is MeeGo an ecosystem? definitely not, its a low level OS adaption. An ecosystem must be built from scratch on top of MeeGo. What is WP? It is an OS and an ecosystem, in fact it is an ecosystem that is part of several other ecosystems.

The N9 is part of Ovi ecosystem, Nokia ecosystem. Ovi is definitely not dying, it is growing rapidly, in fact it is the fastest growing ecosystem right now, but it has very little to do with MeeGo. It has lots to do with Qt, Symbian and S40, but Symbian is proven to be too inefficient as a platform (too slow and hard to develop and to develop for), so Ovi will soon be only Qt and S40. S40 and webapps is what is growing most.

How many people actually care about the ecosystem? very few. How many care about fashion? most do. Fashion creates ecosystems, ecosystems does not create fashion. SGSII is fashionable and also top of the fanboy list, not necessarily on top of the geek list. iPhone is still fashionable. But the N9 will be the hottest, and Nokia WP will have the same look.