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lorul2 is offline lorul2
2011-06-30 , 11:50
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This isn't a rant just an honest question. I'm honestly thrilled that the hardworking, awesome developers here will get an opportunity to use the N950. In my opinion Nokia should let them keep the dev kits. The talent at this site probably sold thousands of N900, not to mention they kept it in the public eye (aka as Engadget) when Nokia was... ahem burning..So here's my question again.

We all know what Elop said about the future of the N9.

So after someone develops an app on the N950 then what will its future be? There is a limited distribution of N9s, Nokia is backing away from Meego. How many meego phones will be produced? Has all the Meego phones that will ever be made been made?

Just trying to understand the strategy with these new phones...
 
Rugoz is offline Rugoz
2011-06-30 , 12:22
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Lol, you're spot on. I don't understand the point of the N950 either. Maybe they want a few apps so that owners of the n9 will not be too pissed, and will stay with nokia (and wp7) for the next one.
 
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2011-06-30 , 12:46
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The point is to promote Qt... it has been mentioned by several sources that this is part of their "next billion" strategy
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IcyMoustache is offline IcyMoustache
2011-06-30 , 13:22
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The point is to promote Qt... it has been mentioned by several sources that this is part of their "next billion" strategy

Come out of dreamworld and back to reality!!!

We all know there are thousands of QT apps for Symbian. Does even one exist on N900????
 
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2011-06-30 , 13:33
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The answer about strategy is simple - there is no strategy at all At least until we start considering, that bouncing from wall to wall (for few years now) is a strategy.

Anyway, it's still good that they decided to "lend" N950 to developers - at least 250 people will have interesting (as a curiosity) device. They could just send them to "utilization" - honestly, would You be surprised?
 
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2011-06-30 , 13:48
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We all know there are thousands of QT apps for Symbian. Does even one exist on N900????
Actually there are many...
 

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2011-06-30 , 14:15
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Originally Posted by IcyMoustache View Post
Come out of dreamworld and back to reality!!!

We all know there are thousands of QT apps for Symbian. Does even one exist on N900????
Are you serious? The Enhanced Lockscreen you have installed on your device is a Qt Application, CuteTube-QML is a Qt application.
 

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2011-06-30 , 14:54
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I think he means a QT application ported from symbian. And indeed there may be one but sure they aren't many.
 
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2011-06-30 , 15:08
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Originally Posted by lorul2 View Post
This isn't a rant just an honest question. I'm honestly thrilled that the hardworking, awesome developers here will get an opportunity to use the N950. In my opinion Nokia should let them keep the dev kits. The talent at this site probably sold thousands of N900, not to mention they kept it in the public eye (aka as Engadget) when Nokia was... ahem burning..So here's my question again.

We all know what Elop said about the future of the N9.

So after someone develops an app on the N950 then what will its future be? There is a limited distribution of N9s, Nokia is backing away from Meego. How many meego phones will be produced? Has all the Meego phones that will ever be made been made?

Just trying to understand the strategy with these new phones...
whats so hard to understand? I dont get it?
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jotoco is offline jotoco
2011-06-30 , 15:19
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The problem I see is that Nokia, or rather, Elop is limiting N9 manucturing to just under a 100k units. Even if there is demand there will not be available phones, so it will never be a success.

This is to prevent it making too much success and making WP7 a bad choice, and it makes n950 obsolete, because there won't be any buyers for apps.
 
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