Thread: N900 Marketing - going in a different direction
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matthewcc is offline matthewcc
2009-10-07 , 19:38
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Originally Posted by ciaomatteo View Post
So you're in agreement then with the others, that the N900 is competing with the iPhone. Because even though you're creating a different pedestal you're still trying to compete with them since you said you wanted to surpass them. And if they weren't competition you wouldn't even be referring to them.

The N900 has been marketed as a mobile computer/tablet first and a phone second. But in the end it's going to be in the class of smartphones. Both the iPhone and N900 have different means to the same end.
Well said...

My only comment is that the different means to the same end.

I want them to be divergent, the i-phone became a toy first and tool second. I would prefer the opposite. I think that the iphone will be in crises in the future because of this and will need to re-invent itself in-to a world without i-phart apps and the like. I think that nokia has the experience to keep this from happening in the first place and to allow a maemo device to come in flavors.

It is my stupid little dream, but at unboxing I would like to choose a flavor -Mameo Business/Social/Games etc. that would preload in all the tools I want for my needs and let me know that I can always add or remove things. I want to be able to give one to my 68 yo mom and i can make it meet her needs with large font, news feeds of the obits, and big buttons to dial. imo this is the grail. to be able to use all the functionality and help distribute it by bundling it and empowering users to change it.

Now many of you will say YES, thats the beauty of ROOT. but i swear to Christ my mom and much of the market is far more interested in a pill reminder than root access.

This is not just a fan community but also a developer community and I expect that developers are listening to our ideas and implementing them if you want help, im sure some of the average joes would love to help you come up with cool tools, and i include myself in there as I cannot even manage to ssh in to amazon-aws without help.