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Originally Posted by dchky View Post
I think Nokia's marketing group know a thing or two more about selling phones and operating systems than you do. MeeGo will do okay for itself - while I feel the interface is boring right now, obviously each manufacturer is going to code up their own stuff to make it interesting and worthwhile.

Now, seems like nobody else called you out on this, so I will.

In which universe do you live that you can say 3 million odd units (talking about the N97 here) shipped amounts to a failure? You, sir, have no clue what you are talking about. 10 million 5800's sold.

If you believe the stats, it appears Nokia are shipping about 300 million handsets each year, give or take a handful of millions or so. I think their bank account is pretty healthy myself.
Not sure we can judge success simply by units sold. N97 was meant to take a huge chunk of the iphone market and failed to do so woefully. If BMW released a 5 series that happened to sell alot of units but was completely crushed in sales by E Class would you consider it a success even though it went from clear market leader to seriously lagging behind? On that basis it has to be labelled a failure. Also of that 3 million you mention how many are disappointed customers who will probably never buy another Nokia device or seriously think twice about getting one?