Thread: IDC thinks Android will eat Maemo, nom nom
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Gadgety is offline Gadgety
2010-01-29 , 22:36
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Originally Posted by DaveP1 View Post
While I would not mind seeing any of your suggestions, I think that they would represent a decision by Nokia to avoid growing the Maemo market. My worry, every time I hear Nokia talk about Symbian, is that they view Maemo as strictly a test bed. They don't many phone models running Maemo because one or two will do (e.g. I suspect the N900 has a keyboard because of their N800/N810 experiment).

The problem is that Maemo may be and may continue to be Nokia's test lab. Any insights it provides will be fleshed out and polished in the Symbian world. For Linux geeks it won't really matter. Others might not want to live on the bleeding edge when it comes to their phone.
Any bleeding edge products will be a test bed. However relegating Maemo to "strictly a test bed" when Nokia's top management have publicly stated to the financial community Maemo will make up 10-12.5%of total device sales seems frivolous. Do you really think they would make such a statement to a notoriously conservative financial community, and then keep the platform as "strictly a test bed"?? They might as well just resign from their posts today, because they would be made redundant within a year or two unless they follow up on their intentions and statements. Although they may have been late to the party, Nokia's top management are not fools. They're aiming to sell around 6.75 million Maemo devices in 2011. They are betting on Maemo for the top end segment. Of course they may fail, but I believe they will put in a lot of effort to make it happen. They have also stated they will focus all their product lines. This implies few devices in each category under each OS. At least that's my reading.