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Originally Posted by christexaport View Post
I'll give you a big Amen, mrojas! This is an unworthy comparison on many levels. Hardware is just that, but software dictates how you use it. So the argument isn't about the phones, but the OSes. I wrote this response to a similar question in another thread:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=351390&postcount=8

Now I know not everyone is as well versed in the intricacies of mobile OSes, but take this info and share it, so we can end all of these worthless comparisons. The N900 is precedent setting in the smartphone space, and that's the biggest thing about all of this.

The Droid is an excellent phone, and will chew holes in the Apple growth machine by itself, as well as put greater exposure on Android OS. This is what no one has been willing to do, expose Apple via marketing, until now. Droid will sell extremely well if priced in the $199 after subsidy price point, and I promise Nokia will be extremely happy. Once the iPhone is in less demand, and Android is already ubiquitous, carriers will look for a competitive alternative. Symbian, Maemo, and WinMo stand to benefit, and should in the next 3 quarters.
Actually, I would agree with this statement if we'd be talking about anyone but Google. But right now it happens to be Google.


Of course it's a good thing that the Iphone's American domination is seeing an end, but who is the big winner here? If the N900 would be released before the Android phones, then the answer would be obvious. But this isn't the case.

Now when Google has gained a lot of potential hype and market share, they'll have to lose the momentum to a competitor (Maemo in this case) in order for the competitor's success. And this hasn't been seen in any other areas of Google's domination. This is the case.

Google Search is still extremely dominant, and other Google products haven't really ever dropped in market share. For sure, some Google services fails, but once they're established they simply have no competition in the end, or at least never reduces their market share.

And that's why a market with both Google (Android) and the Iphone is a much worse situation than the Iphone alone. Well, this was pretty obvious actually, but my point is that there's no one that crushes the competition the way Google does, and that's why companies often avoid to compete with them.


The thing Nokia should do right now is to market privacy, since it's the only area where Google can be defeated for sure. Everything else Nokia has done can easily be either catched up or surpassed by Google, considering their resources and power.