Limiting Maemo to just the "high end" stuff is stupid. That's like saying, "If you want the shiny keys, then you gotta by the expensive sports car to get them." A large percentage of people just aren't going to be able to afford these "high end" devices that Nokia is wanting to limit this to. Heck, $400 was a lot for the n810. $600+ for the n900 is beyond ludicrous. Even when it comes down in price to half of what it is now, $300 for an n900 is going to be far, far too much. If they want wider and greater acceptance and penetration, they need to start dropping the starting price on devices like that to $300 or less at launch. Otherwise they eliminate too large a swath of the market.

It's like I've told others before, the $50 glass of lemonade might make you a lot of money in a hurry, but who's going to buy it? Only people with more money than they have sense. It's a well known fact that you don't make your money all in one big burst, but on volume. But stupid companies these days just don't see that. They like to see lots of fat zeros on their ledgers, and the only way to get those is with the $50 glass of lemonade. Of course, if the upper zeros are big, you can almost bet that the lower zeros won't be.

It's economics 101. Why can't companies see this? Sheesh.