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a message from Nokia's CEO to staff
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I think you mean Angry Birds chucky (yep trendsetter hipster here,
Apple).
Targeting the mid and emerging markets with a solid cheap smartphone platform should have been Nokia's priority, i.e. keep the market they already owned. This armchair CEO would have scrapped Symbian bought Palm for WebOS and intentionally kept the silicon behind the curve giving customers the advantage of a consistent and stable operating system, a long battery life and lower prices."The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat, 1848.0 -
that's the one!!I think you mean Angry Birds chucky (yep trendsetter hipster here, Apple).
Targeting the mid and emerging markets with a solid cheap smartphone platform should have been Nokia's priority, i.e. keep the market they already owned. This armchair CEO would have scrapped Symbian bought Palm for WebOS and intentionally kept the silicon behind the curve giving customers the advantage of a consistent and stable operating system, a long battery life and lower prices.
do have an iphone but never bothered to download it but it is an impressive bit of kit.
i have a blackberry for work and is much better than an iphone for email though.
Nokia missed a trick as RIM and Apple and even HTC have progressed too far ahead of them now in the smartphone market.0 -
As I understand it a root cause of Nokia's problems is their decision (several years ago) to split their product (and development work) into several series (N, E and whatever else). These phone series were in competition with each other inside nokia and were developed by different teams.
That resulted in expensive business phones missing good features of cheap consumer phones - because development teams apparently wouldn't communicate with each other."One thing that is different, and has changed here, is the self-absorption, not just greed. Everybody is in a hurry now and there is a 'the rules don't apply to me' sort of thing." - Bill Bryson0 -
Whatever it is I cant seem them coming back in the smartphone market. We have three good mobile OSs now, I'm not sure the market will bear a fourth.
They could try making Android phones, on the whole they should probably concentrate on making dumb phones, there will always be a market for those and Nokia always did much better with them anyway.0 -
Nokia have and still do make great hardware. Their physical phones are fantastic, but they have fallen down miserably on the software side. They were caught napping by both Apple and all the Android phones - iOS and Android make the Symbian OS look like something out of the dark ages.
Nokia's are great on battery life compared to other smartphones but that's about it. I think that they can haul themselves back, but they really need to embrace Android. I don't think WP7 will cut it.0 -
Every day I thank Nokia for inventing a phone for people like me.
I charge the damn thing about once a fortnight, stick it in my pocket where it gets covered in dust and crap, put it on the bench, knock it off, put it back in my front pocket, vibrate it it about a bit while I run the brushcutter balanced against my leg for an hour, answer it, put it in back pocket, sit on it in the van for thirty miles and then, finally, come home to lose it down the back of the sofa.... until I ring it.
It's been doing that since the day, about six years ago, when the ignorant bloke in Phones4U said, "You don't want that old thing!":p
No, it was never very posh. No Bluetooth, just long in the tooth, but it keeps on going. Do they ever wear out?
(In case you haven't guessed, I have no idea what you lot are talking about)0 -
Nokia have and still do make great hardware. Their physical phones are fantastic, but they have fallen down miserably on the software side. They were caught napping by both Apple and all the Android phones - iOS and Android make the Symbian OS look like something out of the dark ages.
Nokia's are great on battery life compared to other smartphones but that's about it. I think that they can haul themselves back, but they really need to embrace Android. I don't think WP7 will cut it.
It looks as though Nokia hope it will!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-124276800 -
It looks as though Nokia hope it will!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12427680
Indeed. I think it's a mistake and that Nokia may end up in nth place behind Apple, Samsung, HTC, ZTC etc. etc.0
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