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2009-12-26
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And lastly, whoever wins the heart (and $$$) of Americans will dominate.
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2009-12-26
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2009-12-26
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People who would't want the vendor lock-in (more precisely vendor addiction) can choose to be sheep in Steve Jobs' herd. It is good to belong. It is good to have stability and usability at the expense of reduced complexity. The mass populace will line up buying these devices for the foreseeable future.
Maemo while a good concept is just another linux distro. Without Nokia's proprietary code it counts for not too much. Same is true for Android, however it has already been customized by third parties. Maemo is like iPhone OS: *nix based with proprietary code that no other company but the originator will modify.
At the end I believe that Google will take the price. It has deep pockets, can choose to invest billions into getting advertising platforms into the hands of future Google phone users.
Ultimately, Google will give away these phones for free. Then it will provide free data services. It will disrupt the whole industry, much like the iPhone did it in 2007.
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2009-12-26
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thanks for this. now we all can be 110% sure that you can be ignored and the outcome will be positive (read: less false data from the internets)
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2009-12-26
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2009-12-26
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Please give me an example of long running successful companies that could afford to ignore the US market. Even musicians and actors make it big in Hollywood although the world market outside of the US is 80 percent bigger.
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2009-12-26
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Would you also like a list of actors and musicians who've made it huge without the American market too?
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2009-12-26
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Agreed... But lets not forget that the same way Apple disrupted the industry with iPhone, Nokia has the same chance in doing so when M6 comes out... Everything is lining in this direction,Qt+Ovi, and IMHO they have a very good chance in regaining the lost ground when M6 eventually comes out. Of course, other vendors are not standing still and Nokia is taking forever to implement the changes... So everything better come out clean and fast.
Dunno if you saw, but there is a device in France, if I am not mistaken, that already uses Maemo. Modified UI but still...
http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/o...hy-video-revi/
So no one actually knows how this will play out... Nokia mentioned that was caught by surprise with the amount of positive reaction about Maemo and I bet they are studying all the possibilities in broadening the installed base.
Google has advantage because of the deep pockets yes.. But that is not everything. Microsoft has even bigger and look the mess WinMo is right now. Empires rise and fall...
I read some posts about users also flocking out from Android development because of some dodgy restrictions...
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2009-12-26
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symbian as dominated for years without ever winning over america and its set for a massive overhaul in 2010 to make it even more so appealing.