Hey, that's apples and oranges. As in, Apple does one iPhone device a *year*, and still isn't the last in terms of market share.

A French blogger, via a German site, just dropped a price for the booklet : 799$ / 559€.

(sorry if it's been posted already, I tried to catch up on the thread in a hurry and didn't see it).

You're right, they're apples and oranges, but isn't the Android platform is more of a direct competitor to the Maemo platform than iPhone OS or Windows Mobile?

The Android devices are showing that the platform has a lot of momentum. I mean, when the N810 was released, there was a total of no Android devices. The landscape has changed a lot in a year.

The competition have taken leaps the last year. HTC Touch Pro2, Hero, Omnia HD. There are a phones with quite interesting hardware on all the platforms, now. And it seems Android will soon enough be a competitor to this Booklet, too.

I think Nokia does not seem to have sufficient momentum on this platform. It has taken too long to get here and the speed doesn't seem to be changing all that much.

Now, obviously I have opted to go for Maemo and the N810 over all and every alternatives. And I am excited about the N900. But the N810 didn't really have all that much competition, ya? At least I hadn't seen any when I stumbled over the N810. I was actually originally looking to find a cell phone with a good browser. This year, there seems to be a lot more options.

It makes sense to worry about Android, but lets not forget that:

a) Nokia can outsell every single Android device put together.
b) Android is crippled by design. It's going to look even less appealing on more powerful devices.
c) Even if Maemo has a slow start, Nokia has Debian's huge repositories backing it up.

All I'm saying is that the measure of a popularity of a platform is not the number of devices *released*, but devices *sold*. Sometimes there's a correlation between the two, sometimes there isn't.

PS. If fpp's price info is correct, I take back what I said about the corporate aspect, with that price it IS exec material.

Absolutely, and yet there's a trend here. Look at Nokia here. And these numbers are old, The "Android effect" in 2009 will make this change considerably.

I didn't say you couldn't make it off the lot... I just said you would notice

Yet Nokia is staying afloat even with S60. And in 2010, they'll have to compete against the N900.

HIL-AR-I-OUS!

This thread is about the Booklet (poorly named IMHO).

book⋅let
  /ˈbʊklɪt/ –noun
a little book, esp. one with paper covers; pamphlet.

RTFB!

Market share is so true but I question the Linux Netbook returns. Dell has said there is no difference between MS and Linux Netbook returns.