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2009-11-14
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@ Somerville MA - USA
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#21
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Originally Posted by draco.bdn
I'm sure someone will hack that ***** days after the n900 is released.
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2009-11-14
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@ Asgard / Midgard / London
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Originally Posted by NvyUs
Isn't Nokia's "problem" of breaking into the US market and becoming a major player stemming from them not subsidising handsets and making carrier-specific handsets as well as advertising?
people are over looking the fact the Palm are well know in NA and could be Nokia's easiest way of breaking US market
if they buy Palm then released a few very good devices as US exclusives under that name then it could be just what Nokia are needing
They could spend $2 billion on advertising, subsidising handsets and getting american "mindshare".
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2009-11-15
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@ Netherlands
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Originally Posted by Crashdamage
I really have no clue. 2 billion USD translates to a lot of money to me. Same for 1 billion USD.
Read my previous post again (#11) and see if you still think those are $2 billion worth of reasons.
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2009-11-15
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In the case of the company I worked for, buying what I called White Elephant companies jacked up the stock price. Then the CEO retired with tens of millions of dollars, leaving stockholders with an empty bag.
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2009-11-15
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Originally Posted by The_Solutor
I agree. The N900 is a more sophisticated device, with way more potential. But for most mainstream consumers, WebOS is a much more slick, easy to approach, integrated platform, similar to the iPhone. People don't always want the most sophisticated thing. They want the few things that they do, presented to them in a simple, easy to grasp, aesthetically pleasing fashion. And they don't want to be bothered with other choices that they don't care about.
The PRE is a lovely device, the UI is a lot of well refined than Maemo, the form factor is almost perfect, but the build quality is incredily low and the quality itself is too variable from device to device.
Nokia can inject his experience and his money on a theoretically well done product. Just as the modern engines from Fiat can help Chrisler whit his stone age technology.
I think a mistake people often make when thinking about what makes a device succeed in the market is that they assume the technically most sophisticated device is the best and therefore should sell the best. But people want things that are straightforward, not too complicated, and unthreatening. In fact, they confuse the eye-candy slickness of something like the iPhone with technical sophistication.
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2009-11-15
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#28
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Originally Posted by draco.bdn
Strange idea. Nokia want to promote ovi music store not itunes. Probably you think that nokia is buying iphones and send them to the garbage to secretly help apple.
Nokia wants Palm so we can use the N900 with iTunes
This all story of palm makes no sense. It’s just palm sending the news to the press to try to increase is shares.
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2009-11-15
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Originally Posted by drm
It was just a joke for me.
Strange idea. Nokia want to promote ovi music store not itunes. Probably you think that nokia is buying iphones and send them to the garbage to secretly help apple.
This all story of palm makes no sense. It’s just palm sending the news to the press to try to increase is shares.
Although it could also be a nice to have feature, that you *can* use your recently bought iTunes music with your Nokia devices without needing to upgrade your whole iTunes libary to "iTunes Plus" or on Mac using iTunes for snycing cause it's much easier to use the Apple Apps in Mac OS instead of third party programs.
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2009-11-15
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Originally Posted by Addison
Off-topic, but why can't you? Seems like an ordinary website kinda thing...
Oh man! If I could ever run UptoDate on a Nokia Tablet that would be like floating on a cloud of titties!
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