Comments on: GULP…..!!!!!!

By: John Wiegand-forson

John Wiegand-forson — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:22:35 +0000

I still think Nokia should be bigger than RIM in any business category whether it matters or not Nokia have 1.3 BILLION users RIM eff knows so they should be betting them

By: John Wiegand-forson

John Wiegand-forson — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:19:59 +0000

All right I give u that but shouldn’t Nokia be higher in terms if market cap considering they are the world’s largest mobile phone maker and have 1.3 billion nokia users.

By: John Wiegand-forson

John Wiegand-forson — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:15:26 +0000

Thats a really good point buy Nokia stock and wait for Nokia to turn it up with real superphones with Meego

By: Dennis O'Shaughnessy

Dennis O'Shaughnessy — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:40:08 +0000

Does Nokia have a Steve Jobs who can refocus this company back to making high end smart phones that people will be excited about? Also, a new marketing team would be nice. Announcing a new phone and releasing it within a month(or sooner) will get people wanting to jump on the bandwagon instead of having to wait 3 to 6 months to get one(ie N8). Hopefully, Nokia is listening.

By: michael

michael — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:43:11 +0000

I remember when Apple came out reply from Nokia was…”What they sell in a year we sell in a day”…fair enough.

They had maemo back in 2005 and now they need help of Intel to make it happen.

Nokia thinks they will sell hundreds od million cheap plastic phones and make you buy a new phone just because of some new feature. Forever…Forever until firmware upgrade option.

Every company looks after themselves as much as it can, but Nokia has started treating their buyers as idiots without any brains. I mean who in the world is using 2.5mm jacks for headphones.

They have by their own choice became sole supplier of phones to the third world countries. Big in volume but irrelevant otherwise.

I look at s3. My God it’s full of stars. All they need is the option to customize how many pixels will the “dot” in “i” be from the body of letter “i”.

Too many cash cows and question marks, too little stars….

On the other side I don’t see how is RIM bigger than Nokia.

By: GordonH

GordonH — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:57:18 +0000

“someone inside Nokia is blind or stupid”. The problem I sense is that top management executives are to blame. A big company like Nokia can surely find talented coders(both inside and outside Nokia). But the final mobile product has to be meet consumer expectations(form + function).
Apple reflects consumer and market understanding in their final products by unbelievably reducing important function. The apple cool-aid drinkers and apple’s marketing machine was another important factor that drove sales.
We all see Nokia making and implementing great changes in it’s software roadmap but we can also see Nokia committing too many blunders(stupid/blind management decisions) in the past 3 years.
Investors and consumers are all waiting for Nokia to make great products.

By: Goro

Goro — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:39:44 +0000

I am, or better should say, used to be die hard symbian fan… But nokia blow me away from her with the out of date UI and range of application. Migrated to xperia x10 (android platform) just because of those reasons…. cant say i dont miss, or dont like nokia any more, but they should really think twice before unwelling another crap flagship like n97, or make 1000 OS in year ( first was maemo, then meego, then God knows what). Damn, are they serious…. Meen, i feel like someone inside Nokia is blind or stupid and he’s not observing the competition …. Nokia … plsss learn something from HTC ….

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:05:01 +0000

It’s not surprising to see a graph like this.
Anything truly goundbreaking has been in R&D and the one fantastic device they have fully released in a long time they have abandoned.

Once the N8 is truly out and the N9 had made an appearence I can see it rising again as long as they have not lost too many of the faithful due to appalling support. Thing is these figures have a lag time and nokia have been churning out great but not groundbreaking phones until the N900 (OK, the N95 was for the time but the 97 still ran symbian so was same old for many who saw through the form factor and UI layer)

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:44:18 +0000

companies that innovate always have an increase market cap.
nokia is not seen now as an innovating company because I don’t think to much people analyze nokia strategy or they are looking for a short term profit.
They have a good long term strategy. why? because they are re-branding. they are doing something . they are not just sitting and dying .
once in a while every big company needs to re-brand and create new stuff, or else you will slowly die.

for example:
apple – they started to make more $$$ when they release itunes, ipod, then iphone
google – not just a search engine – started to create mail service, bought youtube
samsung – I remember the days when they just produced TVs and not even the best TVs(Sony , panasonic ruled the world) now sony and panasonic have minus profit, and samsung tv are one of their best, not to mention tehy entered the mobile phone lately and increased their market share very fast.
LG – ha ha ha old goldstar if I remember back in the ’90. what a crappy TV and now I have a very good LG monitor on my desktop

now let talks about a few companies that declined over the years

1. Kodak- they ruled the photography world until the digital camera arrived. then they just watch while others ( sony, panasonic…) eat their market share why? they never re-branded.
2.yahoo – once the king of the internet. did not innovate enough and still remained with their old business of making money from big flashy ads while people moved to a more clean interface ( gmail)
3. motorola- once king of mobile phones they were losing market first in front of nokia, then sony ericson, samsung lg. they just got lucky with google

ant the list can continue. my point is that nokia is doing something.

I think today is my writing comments day ))

By: Jay Montano

Jay Montano — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:08:45 +0000

haha, you should blog for us :p

All my friends who love iPhone don’t know any other phone exists. Frankly they don’t need to. All the thins they point out iPhone does, every other phone does too.

By “Another Mobile OS” what I mean is that it’s just there for Mobile whereas MeeGo transcends that by going to Mobile, Netbook, Tablet, car systems, ticket booths, you name it meego goes.

I think Nokia have the potential to be a trend setter once again like in their glory days. I’m concerned though that they’ll mess up and execute like a Styrofoam guillotine. There are so many facets in this business that must all be precisely managed, but as of late, it just feels like Nokia has butter fingers.