maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - How can the n900 succesor defeat its rivals??

	ysss	2010-06-08 , 20:21
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Originally Posted by patlak

90% of the N900 owners knew that it was step 4 of 5, in other words, a beta. Nokia clearly mentioned that this device was for geeks only. They didn't have such sales expectations and continued their focus towards step 5. It's no slavery. If you really want a perfect step 5, help out and stop b****ing.

The N-gage app was perfectly developed by Nokia, hence the delays. You had a working market inside the app and a full "xbox live" service. Did such effort on Nokia's behalf deserve to go down the drain????

90%? bollocks. You'd be pegging n900's distribution at much Less than 100k units by that estimation (Ie: just knowledgeable fanboys who follow maemo related news. Even nokia diehards from the symbian side may not know about maemo's 5 steps program).

Uh yeah. They need to entice developers, they need to make a visible and exciting marketplace, they need to market the client device AND content to a much wider audience and tweak all elements (including app prices and profit distribution with the developers) to make everything running smoothly and snowball into what gargantuan machine that Apple's AppStore has become.

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