[maemo-developers] Product roadmap

[From: John Mitchell]

On 1/9/08, Jeffrey Barish <jeff_barish at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I am distressed that Nokia has not provided a product roadmap to developers.
> I learned at CES that Nokia plans to discontinue the N800 soon in favor of
> the N810.  The application that I am developing will, of course, run on the
> N810, but the N810 is now about twice the price of the N800 (on the street)
> and is inherently more expensive because of the GPS and the keyboard.  An
> application that does not require those features incurs a significant cost
> burden when run on the N810.  Why would Nokia abandon an attractive price
> point when there clearly are applications that do not require the
> additional features of the N810?  It would be helpful for Nokia to provide
> a product roadmap so that developers can assess whether a suitable platform
> will still be shipping at the time their development is completed.

   Agreed. I have thought this exact thing when the 770 was so quickly
dropped. Why does Nokia have such problems with communicating with the
community that has brought it so much?

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