1 Year on Since February 11, 2011
I thought it would be interesting to note that today is Feb 11, 2012, one year from possibly one of the most significant dates in the Nokia Calendar as it switches over to an entirely new platform, Windows Phone. In a mere 8 months, Nokia pumped out not one but two Windows Phones in their new lineage – the Nokia Lumia phones 710 and 800. Last month the Nokia Lumia 900 was launched and we’re expecting to see more in a couple of weeks at MWC.
It’s been quite a whirlwind. I was as unhappy with the move as the strongest naysayers are now, but I thought I’d give Windows Phone a go – learn about what it is that Nokia have gotten themselves into and fortunately, I was surprised to find I enjoyed it. I felt it was just the sort of ‘polished’ experience of fast, fluid reliable core smartphone more distant the promises of PR1.1 got, the clunkier my N8. Just like my experience from N97 to N900, I kinda felt like I had an up-to-date smartphone in terms of the usability side of things (note, it was pre Anna days and my n8 suffered severely from the Symbian slowdown that occurs with time and longer ownership of the device).
Note of course, from Feb to June, we really had no idea what Nokia had in the N9 and where Nokia could have gone. I really enjoy both phones, I wish I could have some amalgamation of both (WP’s emails, keyboard, people hub, social integration, panoramic loveliness, apps, touch focus, stability/fluidity, the browser with some Nokia Swipe). There is in a way some compromise in the fact that both share the iconic, premium design; something which I’m still absolutely enamoured with and enjoy snapping pictures with in our Lumiappaday series.
There’s still unfortunately a lot of infighting in between Nokia supporters/Symbian supporters/N9 supporters/Lumia supporters. It is a full year on and there’s pretty much no going back on this strategy. It’s a tough fight ahead and it may continue getting harder but the indications are still looking positive that Nokia can turn their image around. More markets are getting Marketplace and Nokia will have more countries to roll out current and future Lumia devices. We’ll be looking on at MWC to see possibly some Nokia Tango handsets, but it’s not until later in the year that we might see some Nokia Stamped Apollo powered Lumias.
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It’s the war of ecosystems and Nokia surrendered to Microsoft. Now they are shutting down factories and outsourcing their manufacturing. They have nothing left except that Carl Zeiss text which can be bought with five dollars. RIP Nokia.
Talk about melodramatic haters. I personally can’t wait until the 800 becomes available in Canada, time get rid of my N73 and I’m in need of some smurf blue polycarbonate sexiness.
no one is buying windows crap do you not get it
I’m sure you’re a specialist in marketing and have insider information on exactly how much Nokia has sold. Perhaps this post would put it into perspective: http://nokiagadgets.com/2012/02/09/wp-growth-follows-where-nokia-goes-wp-truly-needs-nokia/ and you get it through your thick skull that WP is here to stay and it’s the future so all you Symbian/Meego fans can cry foul as much as you want but WP was the RIGHT decision for Nokia (fact, not opinion) and I completely support their decision by buying a Nokia WP.
All you need it basic reading skills and 3rd grade reading comprehension to find out how many Lumias Nokia has sold.
So most Symbian and MeeGo fans are at best 2nd graders?
Again, 3rd grade reading comprehension needed…..
You have this?
Apparently you don’t.
Clearly.
I must have gotten the text wrong:
It ckearly indigates that MS/WP would have faded out and that Nokia would be the third ecosystem in mobile space. then they would have had mucj more negotiation power to get parts of MS ecosystem in theirs (Office/xbox integration)
Unless MS would have made hostile takeover of Nokia.
And it will still take months ans and months before their flagship will be available in the worlds biggest mobilephone market ie China.
No one? No sales at all huh? Well, they should pack up then since they have zero sales. Oh wait.
Wow! All this time…..I never knew my name was No One.
please try to understand production moves to Nolia factories… Nokia still makes phones quality is top notch its nokia…. Factories in Korea and China Nokia makes millions of devices and in particular smartphones.
and yet, I want it. Nokia 800, Nokia 910, Nokia 8 and tablet of course with windows 8. But what is the next big thing they are looking for and working on in California? Last night I went to sleep trying to think of the next big thing. Some think its inside home extertainment but I dont. People are more social than that, so the next big thing is going to happen to draw us together as a group away from home but for something different or from the past. Cycles repeat. How can Nokia create this and what are they creating? Maybe we will find out this year and may it have something to do with nfc? Payments are boring. Nfc and Kinnect?
with the way microsoft is handling things Nokia is fucked …restrictions up the ass and no one …NO ONE LIKE BEING RESTRICTED …….why do you think all the other guys don’t give a flying fuck about windows and keep pumping out android phones like crazy
Are u sure u read the apollo features ??? For a “Walled Garden” to support external sd is amazing, currently only symbian(will die), MeeGo(is dead to the market), android(sheesh) and Blackberry(I haven’t heard from them for a while) support them. anyway they are trying to free users from the limitations currently present in Mango.
Yes!!!!!! I’m having a nerd-gasm here. SD card support!!!!! my feature phone 5500 Sport from 5 years back is jealous. Oh wait, it did have micro SD card support.
It looks like SD card support is important for u. Perhaps you should get android.
Nope, I don’t need Android for that. My N8 reads it just fine. Just like my N900 does, and just about every other non-windowsphone nokia excluding the N9.
uh huh. was thinking from a prospective of a potential buyer that wants value for money, thats all. Android is pretty much all that and then some. =D
That’s the thing, the N9 (and N950) went that direction, so bitching about it being absent from the Lumia line makes no sense.
It’s not quite the same. The N9 has no SD card slot but you’ve still got access to the filesystem. In fact you’ve got root access if you want it. The lack of SD card support is simply a hardware restriction, not software. I imagine (I’ve not looked) that you could add an SD card reader via USB without too much difficulty.
Windows Phone on the other hand hides the file system from users so the lack of SD card support is more than just because it’s not in the hardware.
The N9 also comes in a 64GB version so it’s not like you’ll run out quick either. Mines got about 30GB free still which is why I’m not so bothered about SD card support.
I don’t know how much free the Lumia 800 has but you’re likely to run out quicker even on the base model as you have to use more apps to do things rather than built in. I’ll have to dig mine out the drawer again at some point and have another play I guess.
multitask? Native C++ API?
I like the new Lumias, but still… I loved Nokia not only for offering high quality mobile phones, but also for the freedom in them. I mean, I always dissed iPhone for many reasons, some of them: no BT file exchange, no usb mass storage, etc… and now?
Now Nokia went the same way. Meh.
It’s kinda stupid a 500$ WP smartphone doesnt have the possibility to simply transfer a file via BT. I’d feel ashamed if I had a Lumia and some friend asked me to send him/her a pic via BT lol.
Android is the new Symbian, it shares almost the same philosophy (and, to be honest, I still like Symbian a lot… Belle is nice… but of course is not up-to-date in some things, so Nokia could have gone Android since they was “forced” to get a new OS).
WP is like iOs. It’s nice, well-done, fast, easy, good UI and social network integrations, apps quantity is growing… but still, it’s not customizable and has many limitations. And that is something I’d have never wanted to see when talking about a Nokia.
Just meh :/
Totally agree with you…….my friends tell me what is the use of your mobile when 15,600 Rs. Smartphone does not have Bluetooth file transfer and ours 2,000 rs. Phone has it……
In other terms I love my Nokia lumia 710
Indeed. The biggest problem is that once the Symbian users leave, where do you think they’ll go? To WP? No way, most of them will jump aboard Android.
So eFlop’s strategy makes a whole lot of sense. (sarcasm)
I rarely made use of BT file transfer, at its peak when it was most useful I was getting random attempts to transfer some file, likely a virus while walking around town or on the bus. It had its time, but it has passed. Sending a file via email/whatsapp/etc makes way more sense nowadays.
USB Mass Storage is definitely a useful feature though, and it is a pity that it is absent.
Well, unfortunately not everybody has opportunity to have internet on the go. So, Bluetooth on the go is probably the only way to send files wireless for about 60% of the world!
For them S40 does a better job anyway.
Windows Phone, Android, iOS, they’re all internet dependent platforms.
In symbian I can download app in .sis format, then distribute it to my friends via bluetooth. And voila! 1 download for 10+ phones.
Symbian can help reducing data traffic, it is killed because is unfriendly to operators.
I must be a genius then.
i use free wifi!
MUAHAHAH suck on that operators. MUAHAHAHAHAH.
I don’t know where you live, but in my country, you have to go to a restaurant or cafe, buying overpriced food & drink, to get free-wifi
@migo
You are stupid, operators will charge you data fee if you transfer file via e-mail or whatsapp. Bluetooth costs you nothing!! Wahaha.
Ah yeah, I forgot, WP fanboys have lots of money! It doesn’t matter for them if MS sucks their money. They even voluntary donate their money for the glory of MS!
Ecosystem gives little benefit for ordinary customers, but it greatly benefits operators, data traffic will increase greatly. MS helps operators gain more money from customers.
Welcome to capitalism! Sorry I use opera mini. It helps me save 90% data fee. Cheeers!
You’re stupid, you picked a carrier that charges you per use.
I have unlimited data on my plan, because I researched my options.
And your unlimited data plan is free of charge? If yes, then I’ll admit that I’m stupid, & please tell me who the operator is.
I have free unlimited data on T-Mobile.
Oh? And you don’t pay anything to T-mobile? Sorry, I’m stupid.
But AFAIK it isn’t available in every country.
true. its in mine thou. and for my country unlimited means 3gb and the rest at lower speeds.
quit the sarcasm already. there is unlimited data package, free wifi everywhere nowadays.
and if we are looking at the low income demographic s40/meltmi is more suitable os of choice.
and bluetooth transfer huge files? o.0 hell no.
This is how it works, let me explain.
I have a set calls and text allowance that I pay for. I used to pay extra for data. And then quite soon into my plan, T-Mobile stopped charging me for my unlimited data. Something about it being included free with certain plans now.
So yes, for the Internet, I don’t pay anything to T-Mobile.
Hmpf, you still spend money for T-mobile
I did not care about smartphones before the N9, I was perfectly happy with my N95-1. Even though the N8 was a sexy beast, I also did not care about Nokia (which I associated with the lobotomizing of the Symbian I knew from a Psion 5mx and a 9200 Communicator) before I saw the N9.
I got my N9. Nokia dropped it. I no longer care about Nokia again, except that Nokia provides support for the N9 at least during the 2-year warranty.
Good that at least someone realises that Symbian wasn’t Nokia’s OS. Going with Windows Phone was no different from going with Symbian back in the day.
“Good that at least someone realises that Symbian wasn’t Nokia’s OS.”
And then Nokia bought Symbian, thus becoming the platform owner.
“Going with Windows Phone was no different from going with Symbian back in the day.”
No. Before Nokia wasn’t a platform owner.
Now, Nokia got downgraded from platform owner to OEM. A complete loser move.
Given that they ruined Symbian, that was the best thing they could have done.
“Given that they ruined Symbian, that was the best thing they could have done.”
I disagree and Nokia financials results agree with me.
Feb 11 2011 was the worst day of my life.
Symbian & MeeGo fans, lets take action, keep buying Symbian & MeeGo phones & persuade our friends, to help their sales.
Nokia will not drop them if the sales is still good (IMO).
nokia has already told that they are not going back to symbian even if it start to sell well.remember no plan b.
Even if they say there’s no turning back and there’s no backup plan, they will be forced to create one if Windows Phone sales don’t grow and/or stumble. Buying Symbian and MeeGo phones is the best thing a fan can do to save Nokia, or shall I say, “the real Nokia.” Because clearly, it isn’t Nokia anymore. It looks like they just stamped the name in there. Sorry, but that’s just my opinion although I personally love both Symbian and WP.
I would love to be with you on this one, but I’m not. I still want a Nokia N9 soo bad, and I will get one when I can afford it, but it will be my last Nokia, Android/motorola/google will be my new home. If we keep buying Symbian/Meego phones Elop will just do one or both of the following:
-Hide sales of Meego/Symbian phones and tell everyone they are mostly sales of their Lumia phones.
-Still declare Meego and Symbian dead, he’s already said he doesn’t care about sales of Meego phones and he publicly told the world Symbian was dead.
This whole Nokia situation is lose/lose, that’s why I’ve given up on Nokia. When their WP7 strategy fails Microsoft will buy Nokia or it will be the end of Windows Phone. If their Windows Phone strategy succeeds I will never buy a Windows Phone. So that’s it. Goddamn I sure would love to see that N950 come out though.
While I really do appreciate the N9, I do think that WP7 is a good OS.
What Nokia needs is faster time to market for its flagships, much like what Apple does on a regular basis.
The 4S was 4 months late, I’d say Nokia’s doing pretty well now. About 8 months after the announcement the Lumia 800 launched, and the 900 should be hitting around 15 months after that. I’d say that’s a pretty good turnaround time, especially since we’re used to seeing Nokia phones come out a year after they should have been released.
it’s been a year a shit got worse
I really hope NOKIA sells a lot of LUMIAS, but please don’t do that at the expense of Nokia user base.
So far that’s all we have seen, NOKIA losing 10 Customers for each LUMIA it sells, hope it gets better and fast, or we wont have a nokia to look at by the end of Q2
hmm i dont know how many people remaining with their symbians actually love it. Honestly. ( i mean the average person on the street)
And people in my country seems pretty happy, with alot of comments saying nokia has improved massively and what not. owh well. lets see if the loss of functionality is as severe as the critics in here say.
Exactly, in fact I guarantee you 9/10 Symbian users don’t even know what Symbian is.
Those are customers Nokia would have likely lost regardless. People who had Symbian phones and were riding out their 2 or 3 year contract before switching to something else.
Nokia will still be around in Q3, no matter what happens. That’s just excessive pessimism. 2-3 years at the earliest for things to really crash down, and even that’s highly unlikely.
“Those are customers Nokia would have likely lost regardless.”
As evidenced by the fact in Q1 2011 (the Burning Platform Memo quarter), Nokia was still increasing its smartphone sales, YoY.
next year this time we will see where nokia had reached with their windows phone strategy.as someone said rather than ranting about already dead meego and symbian lets see whats windows can do and if they remove some stupid restrictions for appolo os im sure buying one.
Will there be a Nokia next year?
100% certain there will be, you guys have no clue how things work if you think Nokia would die that quickly.
School me please, I;m clearly over my head in these kind of things which is why I am no CEO of such a company.
Maybe SonyEricsson can be looked at for a model. They were having problems for longer period of time. Android was like an adrenalin shot for them but even that didn’t change the course…
All the best nokia! =D
WP7 is dead! Why? Isnt compatible with WP8.
Its like a WinMo 6 to WP7.
I want to see the face of the WP7 owners when your device is abandoned.
Keep giving your money to Microsoft
urgh. It is. Wth you got your info from?
its even more funny taking in account that WP7 based on old WM6 kernel
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in WM8 there will be new kernel (at least they said that, but I’ll not be surprised if it will be just polished old good WM
It won’t be a polished Windows CE Kernel, and the Kernel change doesn’t matter, since XNA and Silverlight will run on the OS using the new Kernel without a hitch. That’s why no Qt on WP7.
And MS is killing Silverlight themselves
HTML is the future!
No it is not… It’s just another buzzword (HTML5 specifically) just like the latest buzzword ecosystem. Such words are used by:
1) PRs and similar managers to say nothing while saying a lot.
2) Technologically impaired people, or at least people that have no clue how development is done, who repeat the words of the aforementioned PRs in a vain attempt to appear less clueless and informed, while blatantly showing they have no idea what they are talking about.
3) People personally invested in the ________ (buzzword).
No, HTML is not the future, it’s far from the best way to describe a universal layout (it’s good enough for web pages, tho), and being stuck with just JavaScript (and a mammoth called Ecma International behind it) it’s far from even good, let alone optimal way to describe business logic of any given app.
Mind you, since your answer was a reply to Jiipee’s claim that Microsoft is killing Silverlight – no, Silverlight is not a solution either. There is no single solution, and there is no single future technology – we all strive for greater convergence in our devices, why are we condoning divergence in development technologies at the same time? It makes no sense… Anyway, I’ve said all I have to say about that @ http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1098845#post1098845 so I won’t repeat myself…
I for one have great hopes for Tizen. Javascript is an expressive and elegant language and there will be ways to make it run fast. The webpages are written in HTML and are getting incresingly complex so HTML optimization is a defacto requirement.
The benefits of portability greatly outweigh the temporary performance hit, especially since most apps do not have huge performance requirements.
No they’re not, they’re just repurposing it.
Don’t listen to Eldar, it’s as idiotic as taking candy from a stranger.
Well suddenly reminds me of some post on twitter by someone named dvs**** that First Nokia Windows phone will knock your socks off, well almost 3rd Nokia WP is here and it hasn’t knocked anything off, neither socks nor any sales.
This is straight from Wikipedia
Symbian becomes described as a “franchise platform” with Nokia planning to sell 150 million Symbian devices after the alliance was set up. MeeGo emphasis is on longer-term exploration, with plans to ship “a MeeGo-related product” later in 2012. Microsoft’s search engine, Bing becomes the search engine for all Nokia phones. Nokia also gets some level of customisation on WP7.[111]
After this announcement, Nokia’s share price fell about 14%, its biggest drop since July 2009.[112]
As Nokia was the largest mobile phone manufacturer worldwide at the time,it is suggested the alliance would make Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 a stronger contender against Android and iOS.In June 2011 Nokia was overtaken by Apple as the world’s biggest smartphone maker by volume.In August 2011 Chris Weber, head of Nokia’s subsidiary in the U.S., stated “The reality is if we are not successful with Windows Phone, it doesn’t matter what we do (elsewhere).” He further added “North America is a priority for Nokia because it is a key market for Microsoft.”
im not sure why you need to add the last three paras. o.0
and for the sales part, if you do have exact sales figures to share please let us know =)
Well he can’t share the sales numbers because both the CEO of Nokia and the CEO of Microsoft will not release any sales numbers for their WP7 phones! They must be good SARCASM!!!!!!
Also he added “the last three paragraphs” because the article is called “1 year on since February 11 2011″ He is recapping Nokia’s moves throughout the last year.
So its guilty until proven innocent then.
+10
Feb. 11th is my Wedding Anniversary. I woke up thinking that it was going to be a great day and then the news hit and I was like NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sadly, I couldn’t recover from the shock all day and my day was ruined.
Yet, today I type this from my Lumia 710.
+1. Humans are just naturally resistant to change, even if it’s for the better in the long run. It’s the same like those who keeps saying Windows XP is better than Windows 7. Look where we are now…
Not every change brings better condition.
I think there are more windows xp user than 7.
Windows 7 was the fastest selling OS ever.
You really don’t have 3rd grade reading comprehension… He’s talking about number of users, not which one has sold faster…
You continuously prove to me that you’re the one with comprehension issues. This is clearly off-topic but it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that XP does currently have the biggest share (the OS is almost 11 years old so of course it will), while 7 is only 2 years old and its market share is 36% compared to XP’s 47%. Windows 7 will be the new XP soon enough.
It’s just like the last Symbian fanboy clinging onto its precious without keeping an open mind for newer and exciting OSes, such are the XP fanboys… all afraid of change but it’s fine because eventually, all these fanboys will die off. I’m just surprised how tolerable the admins of this site are towards all the people who cry wolf.
Clearly XP has been on the market longer. It doesn’t matter weather & is selling faster than XP in terms of numbers of users RIGHT NOW. No one is talking about 2, 5, 10 years from now. WHY can’t people make that simple distinction?
the whole thread is about change.
There was abigger change when win 7 sold faster than windows XP.
had nno idea why you put that insult till I saw the thread above. Awww. Offended 2nd graders.
it was also one of the worst….atleast it’s better than vista XDDDDDDD…..XP still fucks shit up i rather have 98 then anything else cause it worked to an extent…other than that…i could careless about some stupid areo glass crap…if you can make some looks at good at this then there is no point
http://youtu.be/ALCUPp-5UwE?hd=1
yea this is what use….i have microshit the big F.U and it was the easiest thing to use and intall…MSFT will never be on par will linux….they keep it on bay…cause of the amount of damage it will do if more people find out about it since it’s free
Yep. It was all those Vista users finally getting something that works and old XP users finally feeling it was safe and worthwhile to upgrade.
Since then though I think it’s just been old computer attrition as people replace computers. You’ve not been able to buy XP since 2008 and not on a PC since 2010.
The ‘PC’ market has also dropped in recent times with people replacing PCs with iPads. Take Macs out of the PC segment and PC’s have dropped quite dramatically.
No, it’s not. In october or november last year it’s announced that there are more win 7 users than xp. Was everywhere in tech blogs.
The whole thread of this comment screams one massive logic and general fallacy. You all are comparing apples and oranges.
1) There was one change prior to Win 7 – how many XP owners switched from XP to Vista, or are we going to conveniently forget that debacle?
2) Is Windows 7 completely incompatible with anything from XP? Does it have less features, and does the features it has in common with XP differ in usability? Is it completely impossible to execute an app that was running on XP on the Windows 7? Does it require completely different hardware than the XP? Does it look n’ feel completely different than any Windows prior to it?
Yes, people are resistant to change, especially if the change requires a step back, or a 180° turn to what one is used to. If you want to make a parallel with desktop operating systems, switch from Windows XP to a MacOS X or Linux is far better parallel. And how many people did that?
I can accept Nokia’s decision, but sorry, I will not buy any WP phone.
I hope primary means there is still room for secondary & tertiary, otherwise, I must leave Nokia.
Whether the ‘bet it all on WP’ decision was good or bad, the time will tell (and you won’t need much time for that) – I personally think it was a terrible move, but I won’t go into that as I’ve written around here all I can say about it…
What is undeniable is that the Feb’11 announcement was probably the worst handled strategy shift of a ‘giant’ in the recent history. The `burning platforms` memo will certainly enter the MBA books as a prime example of the infamous Ratner effect, and the moves that followed it just added more insult to the injury. It was a colossal clusterfuck that ended up costing Nokia billions in profit, double digits in marketshare, existing customer alienation, 60% of their stock value, quarter-on-quarter profit warnings and loses instead of profits despite Microsoft throwing money their way… No matter how one puts it, no matter if one likes WP or not, they couldn’t handle the shift any worse than this. If they handled the move to any other platform, not just WP, and handled it the same way – the result would be pretty much the same, so I’m not really trying to slant the WP move.
Feb’11 will be written in (business) history books as one of the examples on how NOT to do things and how the mighty have fallen (pessimistic scenario) or how a giant with utter dominance brought itself to the brink of extinction in one short year (optimistic scenario).
It could be worse. The Lumia phones could have been late and there’s still the possibility of a recall. It must have been quite a risk outsourcing the production to Compal.
Thankfully for Nokia it’s turned out ok, except for the relatively poor sales in some launch countries (UK in particular).
Stock price comparison
10.02.2011 : 8.16 euros
10.02.2012 : 3.77 euros
Time to say goodbye.
Yet you guys still hang around here.
Hoping something good will come. “Nokia breaks the deal with Microsoft”.
Won’t happen. You’re utterly retarded if you believe there’s even the tiniest chance that will happen.
Check wikipedia, xp still has 30-40% marketshare, 7 is similar, little bit higher. Still, I think it is a shame, a 2009 OS needed 2 years to overtake 2001 OS. Oh, don’t forget vista, another MS’s success story
Erm, XP was huge. Of course it’s going to take time for something to take over it. Just like it took Android a long time to take over Symbian (in sales, Symbian might still be higher in userbase).
The story is much different in Symbian vs Android, Symbian still sells in large numbers, Android will take longer time to overtake.
In XP vs 7, XP is completely dead, not selling anymore, every new PC is 7. 7 should overtake XP easily, but it needed 2 years!
Oh, don’t forget, in 2006 MS released Vista to replace XP, it was greatly successful, with its 10% marketshare, haha.
More details of the deal between Microsoft and Nokia are emerging (e.g. Nokia being paid to focus upon WP7).
Nokia’s future now clearly lies in the hands of Microsoft share holders. They will judge if this exercise has been a success.
S. Elop now has no other choice and is now not in control of his own destiny.
If the Windows eco-system goes down it will take Nokia with it.
And going by the recent falls in market share (UK and France) and margins (for Windows hardware manufacturers) success has not yet been reached.
A lot of things seem to be hanging on Windows 8 but already the signs are not good.
Apples iPad 3 rumours have already drowned out Windows 8 tablet announcements (remember how the iPad2 killed Android Honeycomb).
Top that with other rumours that HTC/Samsung/LG have no plans for Apollo devices (maybe a bargaining position to get money from Microsoft) then times for Nokia will get tough.
All that S.Elop can do is extended the transition period (look out for “solid start” , “potential upside” type speeches), reduce cost and sell more assets.
S. Balmer is in a worst position all that he can only attempt to buy market share in a climate where sellers know that MS is running out of time and its share holders patentice.
Quite typically, no word of the infamous “Burning Platform” memo.
All’s fine and dandy, nothing to see here folks, move along.
I suggest people read this instead:
tinyurl.com/6wqj4y4
I hope one fired finn will shoot dead that scoundrel Stephen Elop!!!!!!!!!!!!
More than a bit harsh. I’m sure you don’t mean that.
One year later, Nokia is no longer Nokia. The best people working there left, many got fired, manufacturing was moved to Asia, OS’s killed… nothing is left but the name and a few bits and pieces. It is no longer different than the average Asian manufacturer and this is sad, it is a sad thing to see such a company get destroyed by it’s own management. I am happy I got the N9, it reminds me how good these guys were. Every day though, I get more and more certain that this is the last Nokia I’ll ever own…
And to allow readers to have a more balanced reading experience, orrather a different take on the subject. Read this.
http://unleashthephones.com/2012/02/11/the-nokia-microsoft-partnership-1-year-later/
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