Thread: MeeGo Needs Some Talking Points
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gerbick
2010-06-10 , 22:01
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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
IIRC it was Anssi Vanjoki who answered the question about the commercial success of the 770/N800 (right after the N810 had been introduced) with "Selling units wasn't the point."
And I'm glad you bought that nonsense. I won't accept it.

Allow me to use simpler terms here then... if they have posted their numbers in the past, why not now?

I also recall having read (though I cannot find the link anymore, it was part of a research I did 1 year ago) that in the original business case for the 770, they expected to sell less than 3000 units. Worldwide.
Expected and actualized are two different things. I'm sure you can appreciate that difference.

So what would be the point in publishing such numbers if you don't want to sell huge volumes in the first place? You just cannot gain anything from it... Except telling HTCs and Samsungs of this world how well the market responds to some of your experimental products.
This is getting very old, very quick. You wish to continue down an "ignorance is bliss" and "Nokia said it didn't want to sell a lot"... then protest as heavily against the threads that haphazardly state that MeeGo will (hyperbole) outsell/kill/whatever any other product out there. I don't see you doing that.

Yet, in a real search for real numbers, ones based on fact not fan-fiction, you're against that?

That sir, is quite simply the oddest thing I have ever seen. Total unsinn.

Sales numbers are just that. Sales numbers. They are as much of a fact as that OMAP3 chip inside your beloved N900. It exists. Nokia isn't releasing that. You're content on not wondering about it; then do not go after people that are wondering about it.

You go your path, I'm still researching mine. And if it means that I will have to purchase Nokia stock - it's less than I pay for a 6 pack of good beer - I'll do it that way.

It definitely seems like having free thought and the ability to ask questions is too against the grain and frowned upon by you people.

I'd rather know than not know. Ignorance is not bliss. It's plain ignorance.