Dave, yeah, Jaaksi said that. Maybe a conservative approach. Knowing your product is good is one. Knowing reception in different market segments is something different. I quite like management which is not arrogant, overconfident and inconsiderate, but it requires balls, much like making a mistake is easy but admitting one and learning from one is a step beyond that.

The stats in the video are likely to reflect something different than US only market because it says 46% Nokia. What the stats are about, no idea. Now, if RIM has 52% in USA, then why aren't they mentioned at all in the video? You'd think Reuters, as professional journalism who have a name to held high and defend, would include the market leader who have more than half of the market. With the runner up not half of that. So it still remains odd.

HTC is Android or WM btw.

I agree I would have hoped for something better, I just don't expect it. The mass market here is all about Apple, Android, and WebOS as the future of smartphones. RIM And WinMo are considered antiquated and neither Maemo or Moblin is mentioned much.

Also, I suspect that, given the time frame, HTC was basically WinMo.

Well it's not only the US media that is failing to mention N900 and/or Maemo. For example, take BBC News, which I believe is the worlds most popular news website. Search for the word "Maemo" and you only get this result where it is mentioned only once and is completely irrelevant:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8114059.stm

Now do a search of "N900" and you find absolutely nothing. This rather strange since smartphones (yes, I know that N900 is not technically one ) feature quite often in their site. For example some recent articles are entitled:

Why smartphones are not suffering in the recession

Microsoft launches Windows phones

Vodafone enters UK iPhone market

Palm unveils slimmer smartphone

New HTC Hero smart phone revealed

And so on...

Basically they do tend do mention often new products and even upcoming ones. Even the Nokia N97 appears first time in a article of 15th of December, 2008, that is several months before it was released. Now the N900 should be released to the general public this month and they still haven't mentioned... Strange!

That's the worst part - I mention it to my techie friends and they think it is awesome, but they've never heard of it before.

mmm, Adblock

I don't think the news is ignoring Nokia. I think it's the other way around, as I've been trying to get an n900 for review, and nobody's replied to me at all, period. hehe. Either way, no biggy. I figure they got a lot on their plate right now. But I do hope to get one eventually. But in all seriousness, it's not so much about the news ignoring them, or them ignoring the news. It's more about what's hot at any one time. And if you're not smoking hot, you're not news, regardless of who you are.

it's ok the way it is. those who are in the target group will eventually learn about the N900 through other channels. bringing the N900 to the headlines of mainstream media may result in a lot of unsatisfied customers. don't forget the phone part of the N900 lacks features consumers have learned to take for granted, while the things Maemo 5 really is designed for are not what a smartphone buyer in 2009 may be looking for.

the N900 will be the device to teach people about these features and make them expect them in the future.

Nokia's marketing channels for the N900 clearly seem to be the web 2.0.
Tech savvy people and early adopters is their target audience.

Every time I hear early adopter, I think of this:

Too true. Mea culpa.