Nokia Exec: Young People Fed Up With iPhone and Android

jfruhlinger writes "Nokia's Windows Phones haven't hit the U.S., but at least one company executive thinks they'll be a slam dunk, since young people have soured on the iPhone and find Android baffling. Of course, much of the Internet commentariat found his remarks even more baffling. Is he right, is he delusional, or is he just trying to build buzz for his company's products the best he can?"

Comments

Re:I'm not young, but...

[aristotle-dude]

Privacy is an issue for you with Android devices so your first idea is to turn to an Apple product?

This is were a young person would post a picture of Jackie Chan looking utterly baffled.

You seem to have either a short or selective memory. Prior to the iPhone, the standard practice for cell phones were for handset makers to make phones for carriers with their carrier branding on the case and carrier specific apps permanently installed on the phone. The iPhone was sold to "consumers" and treated like a consumer device rather than something created specifically for a carrier.

Apple has put into place restrictions to protect the privacy of users from third party apps from collecting personal information without concept.

If you are referring to the "log" file that was in the backup file, that did not contain any personal information in it. Location information was stored "ON THE PHONE" to speed up location services acting as a "CACHE".

All carriers are capable of tracking you through their backhaul infrastructure without any help from Apple.

Re:State Of Mind

[Charliemopps]

"iPhone outsells every other phone by an order of magnitude..."

I hate that BS apple propaganda. iPhone outsells every other SMARTPHONE HANDSET on the market. If you look at real data, like Total phones, far far far more dumb phones are sold. And the smartphone market? If you look at a more accurate number, like the number of phones with the iPhone OS or the Android OS on them, Android has double the market share of apple. Apple is able to say they sell the most phones because they only offer one... sure if you break up android sales by model, each one gets a much smaller share... but that's stupid.

Then Windows phones? hahahha... I dont think I've ever met someone with a windows phone.

Re:Nobody does that because everyone does that

[hoggoth]

I don't bitch about Microsoft Windows because its popular (though it is), I bitch about it because it makes my days unending drudgery and pain.
I know you will probably think I am drinking the Slashdot cool-aid, but I assure you 90% of the frustration in my day is caused by something Microsoft did.
I also have Apple, Linux and Solaris machines and none of them give me the "WTF were they thinking?!" headaches that Windows does.