Thread: Where is Nokia - no announcement no product - still in hibernation
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2009-01-09 , 09:00
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Originally Posted by Peter@Maemo Marketing View Post
It's okay to try to pin me down, but it's kind of difficult in an online forum, isn't it?! ;-)

Anyway, we don't have anything to announce on the Maemo 5 lead device right now. I understand that it would be important and fun to know more about the upcoming products but Nokia has a large business and launch dates are a complex issue. If you launch too early, you loose the excitement until the sales start. If you loose too early, you might cannibalize your existing product portfolio. If you launch too late then you don't give enough time for application and content developers to create content. If you launch too late, then you increase the risk for product leakages. If you launch too late, then you can't do wide-spread field testing with regular customers risking quality at sales start. And so on... The race is still on whether the Asus P565’s, the Palm Pre, or any Android MID will actually ship in a place near you before the lead device for Maemo 5.
Peter, you raise some good points, but if you look at the past history you see that time to market and price in the end is the key point. Often it is not the best product that succeeds (see beta vs VHS).

And regarding financial crisis, people tend to cut on traveling, buying expensive items (e.g. cars), but the sales of gadgets increase, because they are a cheap way to boost the moral. It is cheaper to buy a X360 for the kids than to take the kids out to amusement parks... Just look at the most sold items in EU and US in the last months.

I do hope Nokia releases the N900 sooner than later, otherwise it may miss the boat. ASUS, LG and Samsung move fast.
I am considering replacing by N800 and the N95 by the N97. With the N97, the N900 will not provide much value added (I have a Netboot-tablet to fill the gap).

However, I do appreciate to see the strong support of Maemo community. It is like the Amiga PC user's group activity when I was kid.
 

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