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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.'"
What they need to do is switch to a more relevant OS, like VMS or MP/M, written in a decent high level language, like RPG or watfiv. Only then can they expect to be truly successful.
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It may be behind the opposition in theory, and perhaps on paper as well. However nobody ever stood in line all day for any phone but an iPhone.
You wrote: "I find it pathetic that you have posted 3+ times about Nokia having "bad hardware" but haven't given a single example. " Well, I find it pathetic that you don't read what I write. I have mentioned N97 and N900 in this thread. Both of these have very crappy hardware. You don't believe me? Please do a search on Google if you don't believe me. I have used both, but please Google around if you don't believe me. I can easily name other models too if this wasn't enough.
I agree. After looking at the iphone, HTC and Nokia samplings for a work phone, I realised that the iphone just doesn't cut it. Too fragile, too wide and a messy jumble of a user interface along with hardly any disk space. After looking at one product, Apple was out. After looking at several Nokia phones, I found the N97 to be pretty much perfect. In fact, I've always been able to find a sturdy Nokia phone to fit my needs at the time.
While Nokia may have taken a bit of a market bump from Apple and should take it's competition seriously, Apple is only competing with a portion of Nokia's range. Then there is Nokia's amazing customer loyalty which has been built up over many years. Face it. We all know people who just won't buy anything else. One product from Apple and a few Android phones is not going to erode Nokia's customer base away too quickly...
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that just means people are over-paying for their iPhones, which is pretty much the same for all other over-priced apple products too, good thing only 2.5% of the market likes to buy over-priced products.
Unlike Apple users we N900 users can get our software from a number of places.
That's like saying in Russia you had stores with 200 checkout lanes. While true it ignores the fact there was no actual food to buy...
Choice is great, but fundamentally the choice has to be able to lead to something to be of value.
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