does sales numbers even matter in determining whether the n900 is successful ? who cares?

I mean, we know Nokia does not support the n900 like goog supports its adriods or apple supports its iphone, so from Nokia's POV the do not see the n900 as a product they can make MORE money on - i.e. the n900 is not a successful product and they do nto see it selling more going forward.

If the n900 was successful, Nokia would spend the money to support it properly, give it Ovi maps navigation like all other nokia smart phones and bring flash etc to the maemo platform or even give it proper Meego.

But Nokia are not doing ANY of this, and instead engages in silence that pisses off many n900 users, alienating them. This indicates that Nokia regards the n900 as breakeven at best and a product they do NOT want to further invest in.

That says it all really, because sales figures are USELESS unless you know how much it COST nokia to bring out the n900 and how much % return they are making on their investment. Sorry to say, but qgil's download figures are equally useless and misleading.

At the end of the day follow the money, if Nokia is not willing spending much more money on n900, then its a good bet they think the product wont sell more and so they wont spend more money on it - i.e. cut your losses.

Of course you can also think that the n900 sold huge but nokia are just dumbasses for not spending more to support the product, thats up to you.