Thread: N900: The First Impressions Thread
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2009-12-02 , 20:00
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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
Laughingstock, you bring up a very good point.

Blackberries are more the target for N900 aspirations than iPhones. If the N900 can gain corporate interest and then adoption, local IT staff can insulate average users from the device complexities.

The N900 is more of a step up from Blackberries than iPhones. This thread just drove that home for me.
As it's targetting skillful users first e.g. IT professionals, system administrators etc, I agree. N900 isn't really iPhone territory, but the Maemo6 device is likely to be targetting that device to a higher degree. I would say it's BB and Win Mo competition, for "corporate solutions." Furthermore, as Kallasvuo said today at the Financial community day the phone is open source, so companies, and carriers can add their own app's and tailoring.

However, I've done a poll here http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=35033, and if the results would be representative of the actual previous platforms of the buyers "defecting" to the maemo based N900, then BlackBerry and WinMo customers are a tiny group.
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