Thread: N900 shipping delayed
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2009-11-09 , 15:29
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Originally Posted by twoboxen View Post
Of all the quarters, Q4 (by far) is most impacted by when in the quarter a product is released. Christmas season is when retailers/manufacturers make the most money (obviously). You have to release your product at just the right time to catch the biggest wave of sales. Products seem to do best when released in early to mid november, as they can build steam into black friday and through the shopping season.

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Absolutely and I think the current release date (mid to late November) should be fine for the Christmas market. If it slips past that I'll really start to worry.

I think Nokia will be using more metrics to measure success than just sales for this device though. It's not really a "mass market" device yet as the iPhone and Android are. They'll want to see how happy the people who do buy it are, how many applications get developed by third parties and how people rate the platform's basic features compared to Android et all.