Originally Posted by kureyon

So you're saying: forget about the consumers, all the "analysts" and "investors" will be buying the N8 and hence save Nokia

Originally Posted by tentpole

"Eating food is important", that doesn't mean drinking water is not important. Misconstruing what people say like that is the straw-man logical fallacy. You shouldn't do that.

Originally Posted by ossipena

errr... a device that was said to be "step 4/5" when it was announced? get real.

Originally Posted by lemon_grass

why have steps ? is Nokia so unable operate in a continuous improvement mode ? Truth is Nokia never has actually been able to provide a rolling production level release process. Instead it operates in a compartmentalised branch release mechanism. Once you buy a N97 - new features in later phones that are entirely in s/w are never back ported to the N97 release..

Originally Posted by ZShakespeare

Surely pumping out a few more x/5 devices and charging full price for them will allow Nokia to surpass their competition. Won't engender negative feelings and drive away all their long term supporters at all. I mean you don't see everyone around here jumping ship for better devices all the time. The best part is that the n8 is an x/5 device too because it's just a stepping stone for the symbian 4 devices. Who wants to play odds that the n8 will get an update to symbian 4? Not me! It's another bland phone with absolutely nothing exiting our innovating about it.

Originally Posted by kureyon

You're as bad as an applefanboiapologist. When the original iphone was released it had lots of features missing that were commonplace on other phones. This was Apple's step 1/x on their road to smartphone domination. Just because it was step 1 it didn't prevent them from trying their best to ensure that what features the iphone had were polished and were continued to be polished by releasing constant updates (if only to mainly close loopholes in unlocking )