In short, this will be a nice achievment, which shows that Maemo will have a bunch of casual users as well, and it'd be good if the communicity prepared for that, if they wasn't aware of that earlier (in case anyone missed my unprofessional posts, because there will come more in the future ). Much of this is already known, and in case you're short of time, skip this thread.

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First off, this thread is kind of pointless (you've been warned), but on the other side, it does show the marketing success of the N900 - by not being marketed at all. This way, the N900 has been considered as an even better device, due Nokia's will to "underplay it" to let their other devices shine as well. Nice tactical choise by Nokia (if done by purpose), which also saved them a couple of bucks!

However, it might be quite obvious that Maemo is no longer a niche, but I still think it's more popular than many people here think it is. By that I generally mean the tech world outside Maemo dedicated sites (like GSMArena, a not too professional site, but their visitors are still much more informed than the average Joe). At least Maemo is now a step closer to the mainstream than its previous version were.


Maemo has recently got a lot of shine in the fame when the N900 was revealed, but the question is whether it will be able to keep its momentum with only one device. Somewhat proof for that is the fact that N900 still has 70 % of daily interest in GSMArena (which is one of the phone world's biggest sites by visitors). As the topic title says, it's also getting close to 1 million hits (obviously not unique hits).

Source:
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n900-2917.php

Keep in mind that GSMArena is just one tech site, out of many others. But the N900 has recieved a lot of attention overall in Europe as well. "Unfortunately" it has aslo become quite popular in Asia (however to a lesser degree) , which isn't a good thing for the Nokia brand, since the N900 isn't going to be officially released there, while it's considered as the best thing Nokia has to date, which might damage the Nokia brand, which is extremly powerful in Asia. Looks like Nokia underestimated the N900 after all, or did they?


Anyway, the reason why I made this thread was because the N900 has already became well known - without much advertising. This means the device's future in terms of sales doesn't look too bad. The real question is whether Nokia awarely underplayed it (and are prepared for its wide appeal), or if they might have some eventual problems to meet the demand (which will be there).