Thread: Will Joe Average understand why the N900 is special?
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2009-10-07 , 21:01
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#54
Originally Posted by RevdKathy View Post
Is there not a slight worry that if enough Joes don't buy the n900, nokia shareholders will ditch the idea in favour of something that Joe will buy because it supports their bottom line? And there will be no n1000, n1200?
Nokia has repeatedly stated that the N900 and maemo 5 are step 4 of 5. They are hiring rapidly in their maemo department even hiring ex-Apple executives to join the maemo devices team. There is very little chance (read that as ZERO chance) of them bailing out before the N1000/Harmattan.

The N900 will see full support until the next device comes out regardless of sales. I believe that Nokia is betting on its services on top of Nokia hardware being the real money maker, regardless of whether that hardware is running maemo or Symbian.