Thread: What woud you realistically like to see in the N900?
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2008-08-05 , 17:26
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Originally Posted by Wes Doobner View Post
Uhh, businesses buy millions of 'laptops' for their employees each year. Sorry, they aren't buying tablets and sorry, but 9 of the 10 apps I use daily simply cannot be made to work on a tablet; nor would I expect my employees to stare at a 4" screen all day. I'd have no employees left because they would all leave, or they would all be on disbility ffrom the migraines they would get from staring at a 4" screen for 6 hours per day.
None of which changes what I said:

Business customers do not define what is or isn't a laptop. Nor even what is or isn't a useful laptop. Nor even what is or isn't a successful portable computing gadget.

They are one segment of the market. Even if they're the largest segment of the market, they're still just one segment of the market. There are other market segments, which are profitable, and have no need to address the desires of the business customer market segment.

It's possible to have quite successful laptop products that aren't aimed at business customers at all. First generation iBook. iPod. iPod Touch. All successful portable computing gadgets that aren't/weren't focused on the business market (you could even put the first gen iPhone into this category, as many business gadget pundits have complained loudly that it didn't have features necessary to the business market).

And, by the way, we're talking about the N800, N810, and N900. Notice that they're N series devices, and not E series devices. Tell me that they NEED to be satisfying to the business market when there's a NIT that's an E series device.
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