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2010-01-01 , 19:03
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Originally Posted by Eric G View Post
If you can do it, listen to the earnings calls and see if you can ask that question, using their estimates. The presentation you quote certainly sounds like they are betting the company on Maemo. But if they aren't putting the resources into the product it may be an indicator of further trouble with the company, and this is just a Hail Mary pass.
Maemo will be important for Nokia in the future and Nokia's capital markets day was the place tho show that who still thought otherwise, but Symbian will be even more important. They are expecting in 2011 it to be the mass market OS rather than the S40.

Nokia sold 472.3million phones in 2008

Really hard to know how will Maemo do in 2011 with out seeing harmattan ready yet, but if they will be able to make UI that they are talking about they can have achieve in best case Symbian like position they had in 2006-2007. Same goes for the Symbian^4 and Maemo 6 Qt marriage that again if all goes like a plan could actually overshadow many others. Lots of potential, but so does OSX, Android and maybe even WebOS.