Thread: Why N900 failed on consumer market ?
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rash.m2k is offline rash.m2k
2010-11-23 , 11:52
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#24
Originally Posted by lanwellon View Post
And,

Symbian^3 cannot provide great UI because of the limitation of the system.

But MeeGo can do this.

if MeeGo is going to be a Phone OS for N9,

then it is trying to imitate iOS/Android.

iOS/Android is 3 years ahead,

If MeeGo is just a duplication of Android, and 3 years behind,

I can barely see the chance that Nokia will finally win the market back.
I don't think you quite understand what Nokia are trying to do with Meego/symbian now.

The big focus is on Qt! By using Qt what they have basically done is make it easier to port applications from symbian to meego and vice versa but ALSO port applications from Linux apps using Qt to Meego/symbian.

So you may think that Nokia are behind the game - but in actual fact the will be far ahead of the game in around 1-2 years time.

You just have to look at the number of (useful) apps in repos to understand the power of the N900 and the direction Nokia is headed!

Just a few days ago I received an email with a docx attachment on my phone - if I had an android/iphone I would be screwed - but my N900 has open office 3, so I just fired it up and was able to view it!

(After extracting it using xarchiver!).

That kind of power is not available with ANY phone! So you can say the N900 was a failure - but I don't see that!
 

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