Thread: Apple vs Nokia
View Single Post
aflegg's Avatar
Posts: 1,463 | Thanked: 81 times | Joined on Oct 2005 @ UK
#48
Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
it seems to me that one undisputed consensus here in this forum is: "a commercially successful product must certainly be a good product". (and the other way round: "if a product doesnt reach the mass market, its not a good product")

am i right? is commercial success an indictor to you about the quality of a product? if so, why? (i'm a little surprised by such an idea.)
For a gadget like a NIT, or an iPhone-like device with SDK, there is a minimum threshold at which the community really flourishes and delivers a variety of different solutions based on the device.

The iPhone is there already, the NITs have been on the cusp of breaking that since they were released, AFAICT.

Commercial success makes it much more likely that that threshold will be reached and third-party software, accessories, solutions will be delivered.
__________________
Andrew Flegg -- mailto:andrew@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org
Now known as
Jaffa