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Originally Posted by qgil View Post
Sales numbers are announced by Nokia business representatives so no, we can't share that information here. But it doesn't really matter for the topic of discussion: Maemo and the Internet Tablets have sold enough to keep this team growing in terms of size and weight in the Nokia organization and strategy.
I just don't get the secrecy around numbers of a past sold product. Sure, we see the hiring going on around Maemo, we see a new version forthcoming, which is part 4 out of a 5 step process towards a mainstream product.

Yet... we can find numbers of the other N-series sold if we pry hard enough. But this one, in the community nonetheless is a secret.

Just doesn't make sense. No canned response so far makes sense either. "Enough"... "growing"... I'm sorry. But it does matter. The Apple G4 Cube saw two internal revisions, two CPU levels... had a cult following; yet it was a flop. The numbers were "hidden" from most in that release mainly because it was a niche release and ultimately a flop.

Not saying the NIT's are a flop; but they're not mainstream either. And if Nokia keeps losing money and walk away from the NIT platform, or at least dev further into the NIT platform... not knowing these numbers might be important to give some people an understanding of why things happen in the future.
 

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