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gerbick	2015-12-02 , 17:47
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Originally Posted by mscion

I think you make a generally valid point about marketing this device in the US. However, I was thinking, not of the general US public, but just folks like myself that had used the N900 and/or N9 and would have liked to use a related OS. Whether that would be enough people to keep Jolla afloat is not clear. Come to think of it, N9 was not sold by any carrier in US but it at least got 3G. Indeed, about 5 or 6 of us N9 fans had a meet up years ago in Rockville MD. It was really fun. Alas, halcyon days bygone...

Oh, trust me. I pulled in 37 N9's during it's heyday, half of which did stay in the US but the rest went to Canada or Mexico. My point though is that those numbers of us purists never truly make a dent in anybody's plans else we'd see more devices that addresses our wants and needs as geeks, tinkerers and fans of alternatives...

This forum, the kind that frequent this forum; we just do not count. We never really have unfortunately. Psion, Zaurus, Maemo, MeeGo... we were part of an experiment or incidentally part of the crowd that got a device that we decided to back and in each case it did not live long for those company.

The ideals persist. But we're just not important to these companies. I'd risk to say it's because we're fickle, once we find something we really like, we're quite unlikely to let it go anytime soon (the people in 2015 still using a N900 as their daily phone/mobile computer is quite high in this forum) and that's not a model that screams "Hey, target this bunch of guys. They'll love you, expect the world, criticize the ever living **** out of you, but will not let your device go for years until you've lost interest and/or ways to capitalize on their fandom..."

Yeah. Not sustainable unless they want to be charitable or have embraced meritocracy.

I think we actually agree more than disagree. I just see things from the marketing side as being unable to be fixed, whereas the tech side we're a moving target.