Thread: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
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gerbick
2012-07-13 , 17:47
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Originally Posted by qwazix View Post
That is precisely the point of a device like the N900 and that's why we love it. The ability to do things that are not popular.
But if you were a small company, would you put out a device that could only do what a very small percentage of folks that own phones/mobile devices could do?

You're creating a niche within a niche that way. Not saying that the esoteric things such as a torrent file on your mobile is the only thing it can do, but refining the main mobile device usage will invariably take precedence or they (Jolla) will release a rather specialized device that may sell in even less numbers than the N900.

That could spell disaster for a startup.

The rest of the things you're talking about... I get what you're saying. I just wish to discuss my concern over creating a device that only serves a minor portion of what people actually use it for versus trying to hit a larger, sweet spot.

Given that it's made on MeeGo, I'm sure it'll be geeky enough - as long as they don't bring Aegis along - to satisfy the N900 user as long as they can do the torrents + other usages that made it popular within that crowd.

I just have to question that those things might have made it popular here... it didn't make it popular as a device outside of this group.

It's not popular to want to drop cellular functionality altogether when wifi is available but it prolongs my battery life significantly and my usage pattern fits perfectly to it.
Wait. Isn't this just airplane mode?

I have seen all kinds of weird "features" people have implemented on this board that for 99% is a "who would want that" feature.
Quite. But those one-offs are mainly due to the flexible nature of Maemo 5. That flexibility is the key, not the features imho.

And by the way torrents are something I use 5 or 6 times a year on the N900. All those little things that you know you can do on the N900 are the reason I never carry a laptop with me unless I'm pretty sure I'll have to sit on a desk and work for a couple of hours. Everything else I may need to do can be done on the NIT. Having it in my pocket along with two japods makes me feel it's alright to leave the laptop at home.
Okay... cool to hear that. Despite not being a personal need of mine, thank you for sharing how/why you use that. Makes more sense to me.