| > Because the number of potential developers on this platform is at least an order of magnitude bigger than all Windows Mobile developers on this planet. Why? Where do these potential devs suddenly come from? Just fro the fact it's a FOSS phone? Looking at how Linux has struggled for years (and is still struggling) to get decent software, your premise seems broken. > If ths thing turns out as interesting as it promises there would be hundreds thousands of people willing to work on various tasks to bring it on par with other platforms. Why would they? Why would there be hundreds of thousands of such people? Especially considering that the vast majority of software is commercial software that needs users. Users do not flock to something just because developers do. > It will start as a community toy, then one day, possibly after the 2nd or 3rd model And then you list dozens of things each of which has a very low probability of happening. And then those improbabilities compound. > For some people losing FB/TW or GMaps could be too much, but others wouldn't care. It will slowly but steadily gain a good mostly technical userbase. You underestimate the numbers in this "mostly technical userbase". It's not the first phone to cater to a "mostly technical userbase". None of these phones survived past a first iteration. Somehow, no thought is given to why these projects failed. But the new one will surely become popular, will have multiple iterations and a good user base. Yeah, sure. The definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results |