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2010-01-22
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#32
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Originally Posted by Rauha
Absolutely I believe it has been a success and exceeded Nokia's expectations. I believe they thought the N900 would be a niche product, infact it attracted a large audience (in large part down to the couple of years of lack of innovative products/N97/S60 touch's failings).
If the numbers posted in this thread are correct, Nokia has allready increased production over threefold from what it was expecting. So it's allready huge success as far as Nokia's own estimates are concerned.
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2010-01-22
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#33
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Originally Posted by Wiener
Note that there can be other (WARNING: highly speculative) reasons for this. There is no point in developing a Maemo 5 specific version TODAY, if a) the Maemo 6 version can be backported when Maemo 5 gains official Qt4.6/QtMobility support, or b) if the N900 is going to get a Maemo 6 upgrade.
and competetive. At least it was until yesterday's announcement not to have stopped Maemo 5 development in advantage of Maemo 6 and a new device.
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2010-01-22
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#34
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Originally Posted by Brank
Nah...since Hollywood is remaking "every movie ever made" (Karate Kid, Robocop, Red Dawn...WTF?), when they get around to "Hackers" (scene where they were checking out Jolie's laptop), they could throw a 900 in there.
Indeed. But as I tryed to emphasize but guess I failed. It would be a kind of hacking tool or something like. You know techy guys would use it, or agents or something
Think Die Hard 4, but instead of having a laptop or anything, the kid would've had a N900.
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2010-01-22
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#35
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I still don't have mine, so go figure 
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2010-01-22
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Originally Posted by colnago
Considering the year that movie was made, the N900 would be the server they hacked.
[...] "Hackers" (scene where they were checking out Jolie's laptop), they could throw a 900 in there.
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2010-01-22
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Anyone else believe not publishing number (if they are significant) is a detriment to the success of the platform? My thought is that many developers are business people and will invest their own time and resources into developing for the platform when they will know that they will get a good ROI. I think that we as a community are willing to pay for apps that we consider valuable and not currently available in another form (opensource). by this logic It would make good sense to talk about NUMBERS of users and BEHAVIOR of the users. This could in effect drive the development of the ecosystem.
thoughts?
thoughts?
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2010-01-22
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Originally Posted by matthewcc
Agree. Iīd put the numbers out there. Be they a 50.000 devices a month, 100.000 devices a month or whatever they are.
Anyone else believe not publishing number (if they are significant) is a detriment to the success of the platform? My thought is that many developers are business people and will invest their own time and resources into developing for the platform when they will know that they will get a good ROI. I think that we as a community are willing to pay for apps that we consider valuable and not currently available in another form (opensource). by this logic It would make good sense to talk about NUMBERS of users and BEHAVIOR of the users. This could in effect drive the development of the ecosystem.
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I donīt think the numbers can be embarrassing at all for Nokia.
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2010-01-22
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#39
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I brought up behavior because I would make a bet that the n900 community is downloading stuff more frequently then the 5800xm crowd... especially relative the the number of apps available.
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2010-01-22
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Originally Posted by olighak
Not those numbers, no. But what if it's 50? What if out of 30K members about only 10 are N900s and those were over the last 3 months? And some are giveaways? And Some found them on the street or whatever? Heh.
Agree. Iīd put the numbers out there. Be they a 50.000 devices a month, 100.000 devices a month or whatever they are.
I donīt think the numbers can be embarrassing at all for Nokia.
Seriously, I'm curious as heck.
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=> Guess I will wait for SE X10 or what it is called now, and see what Nokia did until then. And yes, I know I have to pay for t-b-t navigation on that platform. But it has still support ....