Thread: Everyone else has caught up and Nokia has been left behind
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2010-04-23 , 08:50
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#204
Originally Posted by bandora View Post
It's not that we're fanboys of Nokia but we actually do some research/reading/LISTENING before we buy something... Nokia has always stated that Maemo 5 and N900 is step 4/5 and it's meant to be a device mostly for DEVELOPERS/TESTERS... So in other words the N900 was meant to be more of a community driven device... But people are dumb enough to ignore all this and start complaining here on (maemo.org); WHICH IS A COMMUNITY SITE and not an official Nokia support forum... And they're dumb enough to keep on posting new threads almost everyday without searching... So everyonne who is complaining about this is really just showing the rest that you have not done your homework and now you're complaining why you're getting a bad grade...
True enough. but calling people dum doesn't help, if this really was a device for the community as you infer then perhaps Nokia should have been a bit more upfront about it's intended audience.

The issue I can see is that no amount of research in the early days revealed this to be the case, Vodafone said nothing of the sort and happily sold it to folk as a smartphone couple this with reviews on TV from those highly knowledgeable chaps on the gadget show and you can see why some would have assumed they were getting phone as opposed to a community developer device.

So hands on research was the only way to really decide if it's for them or not.

If people are buying it now then they deserve what they get as there is plenty of information re the potential pitfalls of this device. Which I guess is why some people post in here.