Comments on: Nokia’s Maemo: 43% of mobile developers in favour

By: adsl viettel

adsl viettel — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:29:53 +0000

of course this figure is very exciting

By: patrickso

patrickso — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:03:25 +0000

I guess the majority of the developers being asked were from the US? Wasnt meant as a form of criticism in any way, just curious.

By: ADSL Viettel

ADSL Viettel — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:47:56 +0000

that exciting number

By: Ewan

Ewan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:41:21 +0000

Never fear Alex, they're absolutely delighted with the report and the workshop we delivered. The polarisation that you speak of is exactly what they specified.

By: Alex Kerr

Alex Kerr — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:24:06 +0000

Leaving aside criticism of the tiny poll size, why were people only given black and white options - "love it" or "crap" (ignoring the don't cares which are fair enough). Are people not allowed to be somewhere in between? How about other options for e.g. "I'll see how it goes, Nokia have lost my confidence a bit but I'm prepared to try them again" and "It's not VERY exciting, but I think it looks fairly promising and I'm fairly optimistic about it's chances and will give it a shot unless they do another big screw-up".

> Right now 56% of mobile developers questioned have a directly negative or irrelevant perspective on Maemo.
May I dare to suggest if you'd added more options you would have got considerably less blatantly negative ones. Or possibly less blatantly positive ones. Either way, more accuracy = more truth.

I fear for any conclusions this investment bank makes on the back of your survey. Is it not somewhat your responsibility to not feed these blind people (i.e. lacking in knowledge of the subject area) skewed information?