maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - Gartner: N900 five month sales less than 100,000 -- Nokia: more than 100,000 in first five weeks

	ysss	2010-05-28 , 17:24
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Originally Posted by Frappacino

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

Yes, definitely.
Even if you look at maemo as an open source project, then platform/device distribution numbers matter.

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.

I think it has to do with Maemo being EOL-ed.
To me, it seems that all (significant) new features that can technically be put into Maemo5, but not yet, are postponed for MeeGo. On one hand this is to focus all their new development effort to their next breakthrough device, but it's also to keep Maemo5 devices from stepping over the next MeeGo device in terms of features.

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.

I completely agree.

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