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What Nokia Must Do To Stay Relevant In Mobile
snydeq writes "Mikael Ricknäs reports how Nokia can turn around its three-year slide in the mobile market — one that has transformed the company's iconic N95 into a distant memory given the pace of innovation at Apple and around Android. Completely underestimating the impact of the iPhone, Nokia took too long to realize that Symbian's lack of touch capabilities would hinder its ability to compete in the smartphone market. Moreover, the company's move to open source the OS has significantly slowed down Symbian's development, according to analysts, leaving Nokia with both a lack of support from other vendors and a platform on which competitors can keep a close eye. Meanwhile, developer interest in Nokia's Ovi app store is nearly nonexistent. 'Nokia's problems are still fixable but the window is closing. I am not optimistic that they will be fixed in 2010 because there isn't much time left; if they aren't fixed in 2011, Nokia will be in big trouble.'"
I wish somebody would manufacture a cell phone/dildo. So I could anal-masturbate with it.
What Nokia must do to stay relevant in mobile?
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THis is nigger shit.
I find it pathetic that you have posted 3+ times about Nokia having "bad hardware" but haven't given a single example.
It has a resistive touchscreen (with a resolution that DESTROYS the iPhone), a very nice camera (2 actually), a physical keyboard, a body that doesn't require a crag-ugly case to prevent it from self-combusting and more than 1 physical button. That's not to mention the software that is almost entirely free, of a high of a quality as most software you find in debian/ubuntu repositories, completely unlocked systems and network access as well as root being as far away as installing 1 application. Oh, did I mention that their application manager (app store if you will) has absolutely NO restrictions on what you can install, modify and remove? You can even download the dev kit for free, compile your own native (or scripted) apps and create a repository for them so that ANYONE can install them.
At this point, it sounds like you are nothing more than an uninformed troll going by the information provided by "hip" highschool students that wouldn't know optical zoom from digital.