Comments on: Nokia RANT: Response to Ovum's "Report" on Nokia's 'failures'.

By: Jay Montano

Jay Montano — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:27:53 +0000

What’s worse is the “report” was spread by tech blogs verbatim without actually checking what the hell they’re copying and pasting.

The analyst may have well have written “Moon is made of cheese” and some ‘editors’ would just quote Ovum and spread it as truth.

But I guess it’s nice and dramatic story title that big ol’ number one isn’t doing things up to scratch across all their devices.

The N97 mistake – yes. Let’s pray it’s quickly forgotten about by the masses, but always remembered by Nokia NEVER to make a compromise on your flagship. Especially at times of recession, you don’t just want to pull new customers but want to keep your loyal ones, and the N97 pushed many away.

By: Jay Montano

Jay Montano — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:20:21 +0000

For high flyers and those expecting the very latest, MeeGo is definitely the way to go for Nokia fans.

Symbian will epitomize Nokia Smartphone, but MeeGo will go BEYOND smartphone. It’s just a shame Nokia makes people think Symbian is where Nokia’s ceiling is, when MeeGo(Maemo 5) is several floors above that.

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By: Intosh

Intosh — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:12:26 +0000

It’s easy to write an “analysis” demonstrating why Nokia is behind in some areas (app store and UI) but it seems Ovum’s analyst is dumb enough to screw that up. The “analyst” tried to make his point by focusing much on hardware but this would be the very LAST thing one should consider in an attempt to prove Nokia, of all companies, is behind. Nokia’s shortcoming is by no means hardware; it is, of course, software.

About the N97 fiasco, let’s hope the bad press and the slightly stained reputation won’t be too much of a problem for Nokia in the future. It’s an uphill battle for them in terms of mindshare and they did not need this N97 debacle to make things more difficult.

I love Nokia for the freedom their devices offers. So I hope they will succeed. Competition is great — it makes things evolve faster and consumers are winners. The last thing we want is a “walled garden” dominating the market.

By: Intosh

Intosh — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:12:26 +0000

By: Devin

Devin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:17:13 +0000

I ok to make mistakes, like the N97, but do again with the mini after it, is just unforgivable.
I’m at the point, where I simply stopped covering, reading about Symbian and judging by the Symbian 4 and 3, it doesn’t all that much to move from the N900 or upcoming Maemo/Meego devices.
For this reason, for me its a clear path towards meego.

By: Devin

Devin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:17:13 +0000

By: Jay Montano

Jay Montano — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:23:43 +0000

Thanks Micky – Glad I made a little sense out of this rant. Thanks btw, it was your Tweet about that article that led me to this ^_^