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2009-11-11
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2009-11-11
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That's an interesting law. What's the motivation for it? Protection of Turkish language and culture? Protection of local industry by reduction of parallel imports?
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2009-11-11
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2009-11-11
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Well, people shouldn't be required to know any other language to use a device they buy while translation is not impossible.
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2009-11-11
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Sure, but if the people do know the other language, then why should they be forbidden by law from buying the non-Turkish-UI device if they so choose?
Presumably no-one was forcing Turkish users to buy non-Turkish devices ... ? Or maybe they were, by failing to offer any Turkish-UI devices ... ? Is that it?
Then I suppose the Turkish government reckoned their home market was big enough that the phone providers would comply to a Turkish-UI-only law. And now Nokia is calling your bluff, by ignoring your market.
So, now, instead of having no Turkish-UI devices, you have no devices at all in Turkey.
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2009-11-11
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Turkish government just tried to protect Turkish customers since many people were unable to use devices they bought completely or effectively, simply because they couldn't understand it.
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2009-11-11
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Well, you can thank the Turkish government from protecting you from the non-Turkish N900 anyhow, eh?
As for why Nokia didn't produce a localized Turkish N900, I'd guess it was simply that an IF statement in a beancounter's spreadsheet returned FALSE for Turkish sales projections versus product development costs.
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2009-11-11
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As for why Nokia didn't produce a localized Turkish N900, I'd guess it was simply that an IF statement in a beancounter's spreadsheet returned FALSE for Turkish sales projections versus product development costs.
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2009-11-11
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There are about 70 mil. native Turkish speakers in 36 countries (including Turkey, with its population over 74 mil) and IIRC Turkey is a great developing market for mobile device manufacturers and 3G being rolled out just recently (we were 78th country in the world, I know it sucks) helps new device sales a lot.
Also you couldn't imagine the amount of buzz N900 created just in two months before it was announced in NW'09 though there were not even a bit of official advertisement around, WoM and online media did the trick.
But N900 doesn't have Turkish UI, and "Nokia Turkey" replies our questions regarding N900 import as "We can't import it unless it has Turkish UI according to local laws, so we're not thinking of importing it currently".
In addition to this, in Turkey we have a IMEI registration with networks procedure to render devices useless that are stolen, illegally imported or with illegally altered/cloned IMEIs. So when you're going to buy a phone from abroad, you can't ship it by usual ways; it has to be carried with a passenger arriving from abroad to be able to register it's IMEI with networks, otherwise phone will be locked out in a week (I know that's PITA but we have nothing to do against it, damn politics..). That's why we crucially need official import of phones or access to people coming from abroad to make them buy and register for us.
So may I ask kindly; why Turkish is completely left out of the N900 party, while there are lots of less common languages with smaller markets in?
Thanks in advance for any answer.
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