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Originally Posted by etuoyo View Post
I think he was referring to sales. That thing that matters most to manufacturers. Yes we all love maemo but it has been a tragedy in terms of reach. I am guessing more iphone 4s were sold in first 6 hours of release than N900s have been sold in its entire life.

I disagree that it is too late for meego though. If all Nokia's top of the line phones next year are meego then meego is bound to have some mad sales. After all N97 sold a lot despite being one of the worst touch screen phones in history.

Thing I fear for meego in the smartphone sector is that it looks like Nokia just can't let symbian drop into the mid market as they suggested it would. So symbian is going to eat up a lot of potential meego sales. Also we are still yet to see other manufacturers by into meego but so many were ready to put their hand to windows phone 7. Maybe that will change when meego is nearer release but Nokia's abandoning N900 won't exactly fill them with confidence that meego will have a long life and so it is worth producing phones for.
Just like with Symbian even when it was in it's prime it was almost impossible for any other manufacturer to jump in and make profit other than Nokia(and in lesser extent, SE) so that's one point. And it's understandable that nobody wants to jump to OS that's essentially Nokia's "fightback OS" as it has been Nokia that many of these new manufacturers have been sucking life out of.


Like you said Nokia is still in very good position in that sense that if they will release good product all will know about it and i don't think that will change to anything at least in next year either. Difference what have happened in the past years is that another N97 isn't enough anymore as high end market doesn't take anything Nokia offers.
If Nokia really manages to wow people with MeeGo phone next year that phone will sell alot imo, but that will be seen.