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	PradaBrada	2010-10-05 , 23:29
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Originally Posted by slender

I don´t get you? Are you trying to say that to people who are able to customize their device and run same scripts and apps as on their desktop linuxes the maemo is failure?

In the end yes: you should focus your flagship devices on end users, not on developers.

Doing that with N900 was a big waste of time, seriously how many developers have joined and has substantially added killer software to the N900 library? Let me rephrase that: how many small developers have sprouted and started making a living off of developing for Maemo?

Originally Posted by Bernard

Funny that you mention the tonnes of Nokia business professionals in this thread about Jaaksi.
You do realize that Jaaksi is an engineer? PhD in software engineering, not management or something.

I wasn't talking about Jaaksi himself, I just quoted the guy who brought up business professionals.

Originally Posted by Bernard

However you feel about Symbian, it still is the most used smartphone OS in the world and Nokia makes a lot (most?) of her money selling Symbian phones. So the decision to use Symbian isn't that bad from a economical point of view.

Moot point, of course it has the biggest marketshare. heck I still have a N95 8GB which works lying around somewhere in my room. Not everyone goes out and buys a new phone every two years, Elders and/or nontech people might even be satisfied with a $10 phone that calls, same goes for all the third world markets which are keeping Nokia's marketshare up.

Mainstream users might still be content with their old phones, but when they do upgrade they usually want a better phone.
Techies and enthusiasts want the best hardware and software or you can GTFO. There was a time the best hardware meant the best phone: that was back in 2005.

Most people I have met loved Android (since 1.6) and iOS on first sight. iPhones are pretty expensive though, but Android has something for everyone at extremely reasonable prices. This is why Android is currently dominating all markets.

Symbian straight out fails here. Maemo itself is a bit beta, but still nice. However it has practically no refined app system with killer apps. No app store or killer apps = no market traction = no developers on board = no killer apps, rinse and repeat.

Originally Posted by Bernard

Some former Nokia employees told a newspaper that they think Nokias biggest problem is that hardware comes first. This mentality can negatively impact software and services development.

Indeed.

Originally Posted by Bernard

It may not be fair to point at the ovi team as the problem if a ovi service fails to deliver a good user experience, because it is very much linked to aspects of the Symbian OS and the used hardware.
For example: If the phone has little RAM that affects the user experience of the OS and as a consequence also of the Ovi applications.

I should have made it more clear I was talking more about Maemo Ovi Store, but agreed here too,

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