Thread: Video Interview With Dr. Ari Jaaksi
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jsa is offline jsa
2009-09-06 , 03:01
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Originally Posted by qole View Post
Is it just me or does it seem that there seems to be a corporate policy in Nokia to play down the N900, and be as cagey as possible about it? It's almost as if they've been told, "You can praise the N900, but don't get too excited and don't praise it too highly."

The keynotes really spent only the most minimal time on the device, and Anssi Vanjoki actually seemed to almost insult it... Extremely weird!

For example, Jaaksi purposely lets a great opportunity slide past right near the beginning. The interviewer praises the N900, and Jaaksi replies, "I'm glad you like it. (pause) I like it too." And then he moves on.

It appears that I'm not the only one noticing the strange underemphasis on Maemo and the N900. As I was writing this, I googled, "Nokia World N900" and this was my first hit: Did Nokia Underestimate How Good the N900 Really Is?
Sorry I'll keep this off-topic still..

I watched that interview too, and mostly it sounded like he was just carefully trying not to play down Symbian. At one point near the beginning(maybe the one you're talking about) the interviewer went on about how crappy Symbian is and how great N900 is, and obviously a Nokia exec can't publicly give the impression that one of their major platforms is somehow inferior.

It's also pretty clear from that interview that Maemo is still much work in progress and hasn't reached feature parity with Symbian devices yet while the UI is miles ahead. These things are something former Symbian users notice and that might be one reason they're trying to be modest about it(In addition to the general Finnish mentality )

Then there was this Anssi Vanjoki incident. I saw the fourth step mention more as a hint of what's to come. NW as far as I understand is quite B2B in nature and future prospects are something businesses and the stock market(?) etc. care a lot about.

These are just my pseudo-analyst theories and I absolutely see why one would think Nokia underestimated the reception. It's completely possible it did.

It has also been speculated that the N900 was supposed to be announced at Nokia world but because of the leak they had to launch it a week before thus leading to less coverage in NW.(I can't assess if this is really plausible.)
Last edited by jsa; 2009-09-06 at 03:10. Reason: leak stuff
 

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