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Originally Posted by vvaz View Post
I think people usually forgot proportions in SJ's RDF

That is Nokia which "couldn't give a rat's elbow about potential competition from Apple". Nokia has over 40% of world mobile market. Numbers from few weeks ago showed that N95 alone sold more items than iPhone. And N95 is only *one* model of smartphone from Nokia's quite deep and wide shelf in that segment.
There is no doubt Nokia sells a crap ton of S60 devices Whats funny is that people aren't using the features on them. I know a few girls with N75's here in the US and they have NO idea what the hell S60 is or that they can install apps. To them its just a camera phone and they paid extra for the bigger screen. Its poorly marketed and very confusing for them. These girls all loaded the browser once or twice and just gave up because it was a pain in the *** to use. They pick my iPhone up and they are on Facebook in 5 seconds.

Apple has 2% of the worldwide smartphone market and it has 50 times the web traffic than any other mobile. Google assumed it was an error and had their engineers recheck the data. Haha!

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/667f13de-da6...0779fd2ac.html

Goes to show you that software design is everything. Apple's opportunity here is that they can sell services that people want. Having an AppStore and iTunes Store right there without any configuration is so great. This simply isn't there on any Nokia device S60 or Maemo.

A few taps and you're in a catalog of 3rd party apps. No dependencies, repositories... or digging in your settings to find some setting to allow apps without certificates to install since nothing is really certified. S60 and Maemo are way behind Apple's delivery platform.