The announcement of an OS change, without having a WP7 phone to present, was a rookie mistake…

That is the kind of speech you only give, when you already have the alternative ready for the consumer to get.

That was what killed Symbian, and what’s killing Nokia

I’d love to believe that Nokia really do have something amazing up their sleeve. It’s an interesting notion (and has been said by some) that indeed WP is just a stop gap to make some money, stay relevant and then blow everyone else out of the water when they’ve finished their project.

It’s all too easy to bash Nokia as they have been lacking for so long. Fingers crossed it works out for Nokia.

What i believe that elop has done right, and yes he has if you may think he hasnt is as follows. As we all know, nokia is nottorious for their hardware. Right to the last moment of feb 11, it was their strongest points. What hurt them is 2 things. Hardware was not one of them and neither was technollogy. It was mismanagement and the lack of os developement mainly being centred around software. That said, if you want to make changes but dont want to fall apart during transition you need to decentralise and outsource just to make returns to keep the ship afloat. Hence, moving software developement and management to another company makes sense as it frees up resources and unfortunately leads to cutting heads but the overall savings on managing this is really substantial. The second aspect is shifting the focus now to restructuring from within and starting afresh. To do this elop had to choose a software giant who are specialists at just that. Maybe not the best but money devils with a broad appeal globally with huge market reach. It was vice versa for nokia too as ms tends to gain substantially as well with nokias reach. Now the focus on restructuring can be effective as someone else does the job for them while construction happens from within. Now what i honestly believe is that elop talks about 2 things that being fighting google and secondly future disruptions. Fighting google is to nokias benefit and not ms’s. Why i say that is because if google grows too large in the market they’d become the next ms of the smartphone market. He has an agenda and its not ms’s but one that would enable nokia to re-enter the market with a new fresh disruptive os that would be easier to realise with many competitors being combined strong against google. Lastly, elop cannot be blatant with what he is trying to achieve with his future disruptions as he needs sales to take off with wp7 to keep the cash flowing and also to surprise the market with a disruptive device. If they divulge too much on what they working on, then competitors will counter the threat before it is born to market. Much like what they should have done with apples entry initially. I’d say, lets see what the man does bèore we judge him. It is way too early to do that. Few more days before all is revealed. Something big is coming. I can feel it!!

Anyway, with the clean-up and fine tuning of the upper management, maybe we could expect something like a twice or thrice a year FW update from Nokia.. Well, just hoping..