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Originally Posted by Benson View Post
So I should be excited because... this thing (which, hypothetically, I really don't like that much) will be more popular with everyone else? I'm not one of those people who gets excited about "Is it the year of Linux on The Desktop?" either -- I buy my gadgets to please myself, and I'm not going to be excited about some gadget just because other people like it, or dismayed just because they don't.

While wider uptake is certainly good news for Maemo's continued development, if it appears that's because Maemo is moving away from what I want in a tablet, it's not going to do me much good, so it's not making me excited.
Yes, you should be excited.

We like tablets, but commercially they are an unproven, perhaps perpetually niche, market. Like it or not (and I don't, personally), the future of tablets at Nokia is tied to Maemo. By pulling together a great number of resources under the Maemo platform, that increases the chances that there will be a tablet in the future. By producing a cell phone that uses Maemo, but has broad market appeal, there will be large volumes of sales, which means revenue, which means financial stability for the Maemo platform. Read Peter's post #531. Yes, the tablet form factor may be overshadowed by Maemo and by a different device, but Nokia is not necessarily moving away from it.
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