Thread: Will Joe Average understand why the N900 is special?
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2009-10-08 , 10:06
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Originally Posted by grenadejumper View Post
I am guessing you are referring to this norwegian article ? And if you are, this is _not_ a place for IT-professionals. At least not the comments-section. All the articles here containing the topics, apple, microsoft, ps3 or xbox turns into fanboy-flamewars, and i would guess that the average age of the commenters is 14.
Your guess is correct. And ITavisen - "the IT paper" is indeed IT centric. Of course, IT centric means that it will attract all the 14 year old fanboys. You find them at Engadget, digi.no, tek.no, everywhere there is IT news. There is a limited number of norwegian IT centric news sites, and like it or not, ITavisen, despite it's quality, is one of the biggest. I am an IT professional, and all the IT professionals I know, read ITavisen.

And we laugh at the comments. Even so, the comments and flame wars reflect the consumers. The vocal ones end up being the people who Joe Average ask for advice.


I'm not worried for my own sake, I still believe that Maemo 5 will have sufficient good software to keep me happy as long as the N900 attract as many people as the N810 did. And it will. But in the long run, I'd want to see Nokia make money on Maemo. I would rather that non-tech people didn't hear about the N900 than they all heard about it and hated it.
Last edited by volt; 2009-10-08 at 10:10.