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gerbick	2012-09-17 , 21:54
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Originally Posted by misterc

apologises accepted...i guess you are still the same (old?) grumpy gerbick of old

Yep. Again, no worries. I figured you mistook my words. You know me... harmless and grumpy as ever.

wonder whether we need to address the "general public" here

No. But the general public just pre-purchased 2 million iPhone 5's. It's less about sales here though...

couldn't we just stick to the "like minded people"?

And I'd rather deal with this ^ but the more the general public backs something else, the least likely it becomes we'll have unique endeavors like Maemo and the N900/N9.

this being said, i already posted this a couple times...
with Maemo / MeeGo & all, NOKIA primarily proved one thing... the is no money (to speak of) to be made with open source
and the whole industry watched MeeGo tumble

There may not be any money; however there is merit. Bad management didn't see the money in Maemo/MeeGo. RedHat has proven that there is money in open source.

and we already profusely argued whether N9 properly marketed may have succeeded where 770, N8x0 and N900 failled
(not that later where ever intended to be mass-market devices)

Marketing would have helped. Distribution should have been better handled and more widely distributed.

not sure how Jolla intends to improve that

They're working on communication and developers right now it seems. They're also working on distribution, with the Chinese contract already in hand, they're on the road to doing more than Nokia did in regards to the N9 and Harmattan.

after all, a good part of the Jolla folks are former NOKIA Maemo team member
let's hope they learned a thing or two on the way...

Let's hope.

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