Thread: Whither the revolution?
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2008-08-29 , 19:55
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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
I really, really wish I could offer details.
You can. No problem here.


Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
The N800's success actually took some inside Nokia by surprise (I was not one of them). The infrastructure wasn't quite ready for the sales numbers. And at some point in almost any new product's lifecycle, there's that question: is it successful enough to continue, or do we let it die (ie, N-Gage device) and take the hit? The platform was actually on a bubble for a while-- too successful to kill, not successful enough to build a business around.
I don't quite understand this part: It was more successful than people at Nokia thought it would be, and still not successful enough for them to build a business around? If they'd expected it to be even less successful, why did they launch it at all?

I'm sure you can tell...