Wooky, well the market has clearly voted with its wallet with respect to the IPOD irrespective of your concerns about its functionally. Nokia has a lot to learn about leveraging brand identity from one technology to the next. Apple has figured out how to do this very well, having made some mistakes itself in its 30 year history. Nokia is still working on this kind of leveraging with respect to the N770. Nokia will have achieved market success with a product like the N770 when the people who purchase it are those who could care less about Linux, Opensource, or anything of the sort, as long as the product has the right price/performance, where performance in this sense includes the features that the market deems necessary/important. As much as I like the potential represented by the N770, (and I do hope it will eventually become a market success) I do not think that Nokia is there yet, with that "I could care less how it works" segment of the market, which, after all, is where most of the consumers are when it comes to technology. Best Regards, John Holmblad Televerage International GSEC Gold, GCWN Gold, GGSC-0100, NSA-IAM, NSA-IEM (H) 703 620 0672 (M) 703 407 2278 (F) 703 620 5388 primary email address: jholmblad at aol.com backup email address: jholmblad at verizon.net www page for texting: www.vtext.com/users/jholmblad text email address: jholmblad at vtext.com Wooky wrote: > Sorry, I forgot to change the subject line. > > 2006/1/27, Wooky <wooky.linuxer at gmail.com > <mailto:wooky.linuxer at gmail.com>>: > > The iPod nano is like the 5th ipod generation. It does tons of > things *less* than its hardware is actually capable of doing - see > how versatile one becomes when it has Linux installed in it. > Besides, it has fewer features than many competitors - even though > I can say it does the few things it does *right*, it can't record > audio properly, it has no radio capabilities, and so on. Should > some no-name (or even recognised brands like Samsung) release an > mp3 player exactly like the nano (I must admit Apple design is > gorgeous) feature-wise, it would probably go unnoticed. The sucess > of the nano has much more to do with good design and brand > recognition than anything else. So, with all due respect, and I am > not saying the 770 haven't got to improve a lot, I think your > comparison with an iPod is moot. > > > Elad, > > thanks for pointing out the article. > > Having read the article, I have to say that, aside the poor > choice of > article headline on the part of the author, I do not agree > with your > overall assessment of the article. I thought the author's overall > assessment was actually reasonable. > > Based on what I have read on this list, in terms of > problems, turns of > the OS image, etc. I have to conclude that Nokia has a long > way to go in > learning how to launch a consumer product like this (new > technology + > new target market). Just think if the Apple IPOD Nano came > out with as > many problems as the 770? Apple years ago learned the the > process of > launching consumer products like this the hard way with their > failure > with the Newton PDA (new technology+new market). Nokia is > learning with > the 770, which is clearly not the same as a mobile phone product. > > I am encouraged by what I read on this list that the > technical problems > are being worked out and perhaps the next release of the 770 > hw will > address performance concerns as well. I think also that 770 > pricing is > an issue in the U.S. at least where the market is awash with > technology > substitutes. The price for the 770 really needs to be at > ~~$200 to grab > the attention of consumers who could care less about which OS > it is > running. Again, using Apple's IPOD Nano as an example, that > rough price > point of $200 hit the market "nail" on the head. At that price > point it > is not unusual to find households with several IPODS. > > Best Regards, > > > > John Holmblad > > > > Televerage International > > GSEC Gold, GCWN Gold, GGSC-0100, NSA-IAM, NSA-IEM > > > > (H) 703 620 0672 > > (M) 703 407 2278 > > (F) 703 620 5388 > > > > primary email address: jholmblad at aol.com > <mailto:jholmblad at aol.com> > > backup email address: jholmblad at verizon.net > <mailto:jholmblad at verizon.net> > > > > www page for texting: www.vtext.com/users/jholmblad > <http://www.vtext.com/users/jholmblad> > > text email address: jholmblad at vtext.com > <mailto:jholmblad at vtext.com> > > > > > > -- > Jeferson Lopes Zacco > > > > > -- > Jeferson Lopes Zacco > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20060127/bda486cb/attachment.htm
