Thread: IMO, MeeGo will be a tragedy on smartphone market like Maemo!
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2010-10-23 , 20:40
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Originally Posted by ossipena View Post
what do you mean when you talk about userbase? if you are talking about latest figures, competitors have bigger userbase if their shares are combined....
You're right. But...

I'll get f'ed for saying this, but I think Nokia's 'smartphone userbase' is not that relevant. Why? Because they're more likely to buy Nokia's flagship models (smartphone range) because they're "Nokia's flagship"; NOT because of the smartphone capabilities.

Smartphone (last season, Nokia's prime): good camera w/ mms/3g call capability, some email, some browsing, some apps.

Current smartphone: past gen capabilities PLUS: great email, great browsing, hectic apps ecosystem.

I'd say N97 still hasn't made the full transition. (OK, N8 is a new ballgame, we'll wait and see its numbers).

how many developers competitors have? what about number of devs doing stuff to symbian?
I don't know, if their apps ecosystem are as busy as iOS/Android's, then they must be underground?

and apps are just flaws of os. naturally you need some amount of different apps in order to customize the device just for you but every app released either adds feature(s) to os or make some feature(s) better.
You're saying that apps like office file viewer/editors should be embedded into the OS?
Credit card processors (like Square) should be embedded too?

Come on.

You may utterly hate their restrictive practices or blatant commercialism or how freely inane junks creep into the appstores; but you can't deny that it's been such a sheer force in building a vibrant and productive developer community.

.......for example apple fanbois didn't like at all when they found out what the workflow is with n900 from starting camera app to get image tagged and uploaded to service x. they quickly changed the subject....
Let me change the subject real quick here..
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