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Further discussion of Nokia's support for Maemo 5 (was: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support)
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theonelaw
2010-12-11 , 02:27
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Summary for those who missed it follows...
Nokia 5 step process
1. Design and produce an absolutely brilliant piece of equipment.
2. Pre-market it as being fashion-statement merchandise
(focus on trendy disco-hopping fluff-worshiping socialites - actively ignore potential business usages)
3. Wait about 6 months after announcing it to actually ship.
(Be sure to ship to different parts of the world on different months,
even different years if possible)
4. Make sure that development and support is merely an imaginary rumour enterprise
(I read that Oracle is setting the benchmarks in this regard these days)
5. Utterly renounce the product and completely abandon both
hardware and software fundamentals before the line is even completely sold.
...repeat as necessary...
They did not do that with the 9210 but they began
this business model with the 9500 (~9300 for the limp-wrist set)
and completely alienated their business market sector
with the soso e90 and the n97 trainwreck
Anyone care to wager on how long the Meego thing runs
before Nokia steps to the plate and abandons Meego N9
for yet another OS twist ?
They say 'sometime in 2011' so roughly you see this
dreamware showing up on shelves by Christmas next year (maybe)
and by the next summer it will already be replanned around INTEL chipsets
(oops, there went all the driver/code we were using in ARMEL,
shucks - now the widgets and apps are misbehaving,
meaning an excuse to switch to a new OS - yet AGAIN)
The best predictor of near future behaviour is recent past history.
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