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Maemo didn’t even get a chance. A literal single device that was dead on arrival due to that burning platform memo. I miss my N9. One of the best smartphones I

• kristopolous 6y ago
  It had a fanbase but it simply wasn't big enough. It's like the vintage synth people. Those are really popular products but most are not popular enough. The popular ones get reissues but most of the time the financials simply don't support a production run. This response in the thread reminds me of what happened in the 1936 landon/fdr election. A magazine asked people to volunteer who they wanted to vote for. The landon voters were super passionate so they outnumbered the fdr voters who wrote in causing the magazine to falsely believe landon would win in a landslide. A guy named Gallop was watching this unfold, thought something was up, used statistical random sampling to guess what the magazine and general election would yield, got both right and changed polling forever. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5168/ http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5168/ The handful of people downvoting and passionately responding to me are the Landon voters here. HN is exactly where this small group congregates. There's simply not enough to keep the platform afloat. That's why the reboots have all eventually failed