I had to break down and blog: http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com...rs-new-bumper/

Maybe I should use a pic of Halle Berry to improve readership?

Buzz!

For huge sales in a very short period, that's more an indicator of prior product success and/or marketing. It can have very little at all to do with the current release.

Please do.

Hmmm.. as a general comment about a 'platform', I think my comment still stands. If the latest release proves to be a failure or a better competitor shows up that negatively affects said platform, then that'll be the turning point of its competitive edge and marketshare. It's a snapshot of the cumulative level of success of a platform up to said point... so I think it's still one reliable indicator to measure a platform's 'success'.

<insert whole internet's rant about MS Windows dominance here>

Uh yeah, there's that...

Well, yes, but that takes a while! The key qualifiers in my point were huge numbers and short time. The iPhone 4 fits that description; there hasn't been enough time yet for fallout but the selling numbers were monstrous.

I suspect that will be true of any platform... until the last model completely blows it or it falls victim to its own success (see: RAZR).

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They left Nokia out of this one. The companies should sue Apple if there was any fairness.

So you are applauding Stevos ego and the despicable way of putting the blame on other companies phones (which by the way are making EXCELLENT mobile phones for decades now) instead of realising his mistake with Iphone 4...wow...no comment

..and you must be smoking something thinking that the N900 has drop call issues!I laughed so hard on this statement....

Apple's press conference was just a bunch of finger pointing and *** covering.

i am having a right laugh at this...
when the n900 came out the ifans got on about " a phone is a phone is a phone" and it lacks proper phone features....even though us here continued with the "its an internet tablet with phone capability"...
now lets use the "its a phone" remark...the basic use of a phone is to make a call.....and if i cant make a call when i want too/how i want too...that defeats the primary feature of the device doesnt it?
what happened to your great technology apple? cant get it right now you cant use nokia patents? looooolll

Well, Steve's right, other phones have these problems as well, but bringing other products into the conference? That's low. Also, it's bordering illegal. You see, a press conference is a way to extend your name, good or bad, and should count as advertisement. And, last I checked, you can't bring other products into your advertisement.

Also, what's this shock I hear about misreporting bars? Everybody misreports everything. Bars for signal, bars for battery. You know this. N900 reports "a pixel missing" when battery's down to 70%. Many a study has been made and they all say this: people tend to stop using phone when it's perceived as "low" on battery or signal. So they lie.

Some of my older phones has a 6-10 hour standby after the :low battery" bee-beep. N900 can't get a couple of hours if locked. And no wonder, it beeps when it's way, way too low.

Yet, nobody got so low on the scale to actually point that others do it. Because, mainly, just because others do it doesn't mean you didn't. Just because other got away with it, doesn't mean you should. If it did, nobody would be punished for anything, because THAT GUY got away with it.

Oh, and, Steve? Next time you try to say "we're as good as", pick better comparison.

I have had two nokia models recently that had poor reception: 5130 and 5310. They often dropped calls from losing signal. My razr was the best for reception as it never dropped calls, and my n900 seems to as well.