Thread: why doesn't maemo get traction in the market
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DaveP1 is offline DaveP1
2009-10-23 , 15:13
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#46
Originally Posted by kalexm View Post
Most important: Get the bored symbians.
important. Try to appeal to the dissappointed Androidees/IPhonees.
Third: Try to get the ones that cannot afford an Iphone or Android, by a cheaper meamo device. Nokia might be in the uncomfortably position to regain marketshares by the price!
Part of the problem is that as recently as August Nokia was still saying that Symbian was the OS that would kill the iPhone (see below for one example). Maemo, up until the N900 announcement, was seen as a minor niche market and that perception does not seem to have changed much.

http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/commun...?scid=rss_z_nw

For a commercial developer, the question is how many people could buy your product and, at the moment, that number is in the millions for the iPhone and in the hundreds for the N900. If it is a roaring success, this equation will change but, for now, most seem to be waiting to see what happens.

For an individual developer, often the first question is "how will this software help me accomplish a task that I want to do?" Again, the fact that developers can buy an iPhone or Android phone to run their software influences many decisions.

Right now, today, if you are developing for a Nokia OS, Symbian is a far more attractive market. If you are developing for a Linux based OS the answer would be Android. If you are developing for a market leader it would be the iPhone.

If the N900 ships a million units, then developers will be drawn in. If it is a flop in the marketplace, all the people who will develop for it may already be reading this thread.