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alcalde is offline alcalde
2011-02-09 , 06:41
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#307
Originally Posted by glabifrons View Post
Very well put, Sopwith.
Had Nokia released a faster version of the N800 or N810 (big screen) with a marginally updated OS (even the one the N900 has) with a phone function, I would have bought it very happily. My N800 would be on a shelf next to my and my wife's pair of 770 NITs.

Instead, they want to spend years working on something that they just end up scrapping, because they spent years working on it... ugh.

Edit: Just look at how Apple does it: New iPad, slightly faster and add a camera. New iPhone, slightly faster and higher res screen. Both are a teensy bit thinner too. Not major updates, but people are clamoring to get them!

They're probably abandoning Meego precisely because they've thrown money at it for years with no return. If you're coming into a company which is watching its market share erode and is almost dead in major markets and product classes, wouldn't pulling the plug on development that's never produced a successful product (sales wise) for those markets be one of your first steps? The N900 was an experiment, not a consumer-class product, and UMPCs were first run over by netbooks and have now been run over again by tablets. Intel might keep Meego alive for its partners to use for x86 tablets, but I don't see Nokia continuing to throw money at it.

Apple "does it" because Apple ***starts with a very successful product***. They leave a few good features out, then the faithful keep buying essentially the same product over and over again as they dole out the withheld features. Incremental improvements are not going to work with a product that never fired up the market in the first place. Everyone knows what an iPad is; almost no general consumer would have any idea what an N800 is, or even a UMPC. Tweaking wouldn't help in that regard.