Thread: N950 with MeeGo this year, but who trusts Nokia anymore?
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2011-02-28 , 19:56
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Originally Posted by 9000 View Post
LOL that's what we called osbourne effect, that's, in short, unintended consequence of the announcement of a future product ahead of its availability and its impact upon the sales of the current product.

I don't think Ballmer would do it 'unintentionally', as 'osbourne effect' is so well-known among US corporations.

Well done Ballmer.
It doesn't really fit as a classic osbourne effect, as the future WinPhone product isn't really perceived as being a better device to wait for, at best it is perceived as possibly a horizontal move.

There is also the reverse osborne, where the discontinued item is perceived as better and so sells very well.

Neither fit this situation exactly, as the perception that the Symbian and Maemo/Meego ecosystems are essentially dead to Nokia, will be the bigger push for people not to buy. Though there could be the Palm OS 5 effect, where it remained popular for years despite there not being any real possibility in sight of a true successor OS with backward compatibility in an actual device, because people were used to it and it had a very large application selection. This I guess could hold true for Symbian.