Thread: Further discussion of Nokia's support for Maemo 5 (was: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support)
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ericsson is offline ericsson
2010-12-12 , 16:03
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Originally Posted by geohsia View Post
You can talk trash about Apple all day long about multitasking this and copy / paste that, but their attitude of "customer is #1" is evident in their support policy and what does Nokia do? They should be the ones to really reach out to high-end smartphone users and really try to make them happy, but apparently lots of you are happy with the Nokia attitude of "hey, let's screw them after 1 year, I mean, it's their fault they bought this, we did them a favor letting them give money to us."

What people don't get anymore is that consumers today flip phones in just a few short months and in the same vein they are even more demanding than ever.
What you don't get is that you are all wrong. Apple do what Apple do for one simple reason, to make money. Nokia do what Nokia do for one simple reason, to make money. You can say that Apple is better at it than Nokia, and they probably are, but not that much better. Nokia has been unfortunate with the "top phone" N97, but the 5800 and N8 are both mega successes.

The 5800 is still sold and updated more than two years after the launch. It is the most sold touch screen phone in history, and Nokia makes lots and lots of money on it. The E95 was also updated several years after the launch. Every phone follows a curve. At some point the curve peaks and start to fall, then it reaches a point when the sales numbers do not sustain any further development. The N900 has reached that point (if it ever did sustain the development in the first place).

This is just facts of life. If you want long time support from Nokia, get a N8 or a C6-01 when it comes out for real. Don't expect long time development on "fringe devices" like the N900. Not even Apple would do that.