[iKirin]

I partially agree - something like the the iPhone would likely still have worked in a crowd developed background as the people there seem to be into the latest tech and searching for improvements. And the iPhone had nice things like a full qwerty keyboard instead of T9 for typing and similar.

Yes the average users usually don't know what they want but enthusiasts are easier to convince and are more willing to take risks and innovate.

[zzalpha]

Yes the average users usually don't know what they want but enthusiasts are easier to convince and are more willing to take risks and innovate.

Enthusiasts are exactly the wrong people you want to talk to if you're looking to build a mass market consumer device. Enthusiasts want keyboards, for example (see the other reply to my original comment), whereas the mass market seems very happy without them (likely because they're far more likely to consume content than originate it in large quantities).

Now, in this case, maybe a device for enthusiasts is exactly what they're trying to build. But if that's true, I'm not sure why they care about a device that's "budget-priced".