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2008-08-29 , 18:45
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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
The N800's success actually took some inside Nokia by surprise (I was not one of them). The infrastructure wasn't quite ready for the sales numbers. And at some point in almost any new product's lifecycle, there's that question: is it successful enough to continue, or do we let it die (ie, N-Gage device) and take the hit? The platform was actually on a bubble for a while-- too successful to kill, not successful enough to build a business around.
Whew, that was close. I'm glad it worked out the way it did. I've said many times that the N800 was the device I've been waiting for for decades, and one of the reasons it took me so long to stumble across it (other than the fact that there really was nobody selling it in Canada) is that it came from Nokia. That's one of the last places I would have expected the tablet to come from!
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