MS/Nokia – Watch out for BlackBerry/RIM – Thorsten Heins out to get you
Never underestimate the competition. Nokia and MS must be alert and on guard at all times, especially for Nokia who ignored the advancing competition. For Nokia, this resulted in a change from the undisputed king to the perpetual underdog.
Someone else in their situation is RIM, also once highly regarded in the smartphone space is a shadow of their former self. They’re also looking for a comeback, but this would be at Nokia’s expense should BB10 overtake WP. I mean, it won’t exactly be difficult as WP is no where. For some of Nokia’s vocal Symbian/MeeGo fans, BB10 actually offers an interesting alternative (more so because it seems to ‘borrow’ a lot of things from the Nokia N9/Swipe UI whilst calling it their innovation).
It won’t be a walk in the park for either side. Whilst BB10 looks promising, and BB does have mindshare, WP8 has manufacturers like HTC, Samsung and of course Nokia pulling out some very interesting hardware (well, maybe not Samsung). WP8 still has hope on its side that it will also deliver some promising consumer features that have yet been announced. But ignoring that, WP8 will finally get assistance from the launch of the new version of Windows: A metro filled W8.
We shouldn’t really discount the fate of either. BB10 should not be dismissed but neither should Nokia Lumia WP8 (the go to WP). We need MS to continue full steam on Windows and Windows Phone whilst Nokia continues to deliver innovation in hardware, location and value added apps/services.
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1. Microsoft is working on a Surface Phone.for a.reason. They don’t believe Nokia is going to pull it off. Not after the delivered WP7 Lumia performance. This is why with WP8 they got HTC and Samsung into the boad too. This is why Surface Phone will come more sooner then later.
2. Lets compare on the two different levels that form the products:
a) Hardware. This is the only category the WP8 resellers can differentiate, can contribute to and can mke profit of. Here indeed WP8 has an advantage inhving Nokia, HTC and Samsung in. BUT from those Nokia does offer only one product-line, the Lumia, and HTC and Samsung already sidelined WP long ago for Android. The later both do not full commit and bring each only one nore product line in.
RIM already announced a wide range of product lines. Different devices, different price-tags, different consumer focus.
On both sides there are only one company at each side that is fully committet.
b) Software. This is a RIM vs Microsoft game. No one of the Microsoft partners has the code, is able to contribute. All the partners only sell the same WP8 software stack. That is very much the same.situation like with RIM. No big difference here.
3. Metro
Sure it gives Microsoft a certain advantage to have the same UI and API on mobile, tablet and desktop.
But sure it gives RIM a certain advantage to support 4 different ecosystems on BB10. That is 1) HTML5 apps, 2) Adobe AIR, 3) Qt and 4) Android.
BB10 runs Android applications. This alone turns any ecosystem aegument against BB10 to dead. In fact when compared to Metro you will find ib Android a far larger, more extended, better supported ecosystem. Hey, that’s what is on 80% of the devices. Metro is on what? 1%?
But not enough. BB10 also comes with really good support for HTML5 apps. Those from Tizen, Samsungs number 2 after Android. Those apps that run in eg the Opera webbrowser.
But not enough BB10 also comes with verg.good native support for Qt. Symbian apps (still a large ecosysten even when Symbian is not more into the game), Meego, Linux, Windows. A cross-platform framework with large development communities like eg KDE, VLC, Scribus, Maya, Opera, etc. pp.
And finally Adobe AIR. Adobe is a large software company and BB10 is the only mobile OS that supports Adobe’s framework out of the box. Lots of Adobe apps are in the store already. It has its developers and fans.
Now compare that to Metro. A absolute new, unknown and only with Windows8 introduced new framework. The SDK was released just some days ago. And yes, its all 100% incompatible to anything Microsoft did before. That includes WP7 and the large (and in Windows8 still present) win32 API. All those softwre out there.for Windows uses win32 and it.still works. It works on Win8, on Surface Pro and will also work on Win9, Win10, …
Metro and win32 are.so different that you need to rewrite.the.full applications from scratch. Nobody is going to do that. Its not worth it only to support Windows Phone 8. An unproven platform that already faild with WP7 Lumia.