Thread: Tablet Scene should be put out of its misery
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Originally Posted by krisse View Post
How many tablets have Nokia sold over the past four years? Nokia won't say, and it's the only product line where they won't say.

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Four years is a heck of a long time to go without significant sales, it can't go on forever. There has to be some hit product featuring maemo in order to justify all that time and money spent on it.
I'm perfectly happy to let Nokia's board worry about the business decisions regarding their lines of business; and as a member of the Maemo community am happy with the level of investment Nokia are making.

Nokia must be happy with the returns they are getting, or there must be a convincing business plan which neither you nor I are aware of.

As you say, sales figures aren't published - and neither do we know what "significant" means for the tablet business-line. We do know that the "success" of the 770 and N800 was a pleasant surprise to Nokia. By that measure, the N800 had "significant" sales - and Maemo continued.

My point is it's all relative.

Anyway, this is massively off-topic for a thread about Tablet Scene which, as has been pointed out, needs a caretaker or an undertaker. As for Tablet School, the articles and user-facing content fit neatly into the discussions about making maemo.org's news feeds less technically intimidating; and having someone of your clarity and passion writing software reviews (for example) would be of great benefit.
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