He is right... The N800 does suck for end users who want an iPhone...

Not being a fan-boy of either company I will say this. The N800 market is hardware driven the iPhone's is software driven.

What I mean is... I suppose most who bought a Nokia tablet were attracted by its hardware capabilities first. Software was secondary. The fact that it ran Linux was a plus because the expectation was that if the software was not commercially available, any one could or would eventually write it.

The iPhone is just the opposite. People who buy it are doing so because of what the software can do. They don't care about the hardware. That is evident by its form, a monolithic "brick". A pet rock if you will, that just happens to do some neat ish when you turn it on. You can not do anything more with it than what the next guy can do.

Each market is different and each user would be disappointed with the other device. The sale figures prove only that more people with discretionary income will purchase something that does a few things well and requires limited user knowledge. Less people will pay for something with much more potential but requires the user to learn something first.

In other words the iPone is an IT for dummies that also has a 2 year contract with a phone company.


Flame on.