Thread: Jolla difrerentiation
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gerbick
2013-10-12 , 04:59
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Originally Posted by Lumiaman View Post
Well Gerb, it will please the mutants here. But that is not who they target. They need wider audience than the anomalies. They need it to simply make money. Why am I critical of them? Simple. They really didn't do justice to N900 and N9 was a disaster. So why would I expect anything better from them? I don't. At the same time I don't want people just to buy the device blinded by fanboyism here of how good it may be. People need to realize that this team failed twice before. The third time may happen. Lets wait and see.
That's how you start though. iPhone came when wi-fi in a phone was a rarity. Same for responsive touch screens. Now, it's all about freedom from the walled gardens for a lot of folks.

N900 wasn't really a mass market item. I don't care what anybody on this forum states, it's not something easily handed off to say somebody's grandmother. Perhaps a savvy parent, but not a grandmother. That's where iOS shines. Grandmother's can pick it up easily.

You want to concentrate fanboyism; yet you ignore the fact that lining up for days at a time for the next barely upgraded iteration of an iPhone is the real definition of fanboyism. What you're witnessing here is brand loyalism. That's an equal cardinal sin in my books.

You're right. Jolla needs to make money. But what's their true goal? To be different. To sale different means that they will probably have to take routes that you'd not consider popular or even viable. Give it time, they've yet to start selling one thing.

The N9 sold well considering what was done to it - released in Azerbaijan and remote countries, not officially released in the UK, Germany, France, US or any other country that I'd consider "1st world" for the most part. Blame whomever you want for that, but it just was sold in some rather odd places.

You say that they've failed twice, this will be the third time. Each and every start and stop of Maemo/OSSO/MeeGo was a failure to me. But then again, WinCE 6.0, WP7, WP7.5, WP7.8, WP8, WP8.1 - who strikes out that much? Only WinCE 6.0 was a success. And that's mostly due to lack of competition at that time - Palm (dead), BlackBerry (dying) and Nokia (beyond dead) yet you show patience for Microsoft.

I'm not asking. Just observing. You say you'd wait... and there's only one thing that's ever told me the absolute truth - time. We'll see.