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My feeling for what went wrong for Nokia, which kind of chimes with what's here is that the problem is that they couldn't decide a strategic platform and stick
by raesene9 11y ago
My feeling for what went wrong for Nokia, which kind of chimes with what's here is that the problem is that they couldn't decide a strategic platform and stick with it. There was a lot of differences between the Symbian crew and the Maemo crew.
The prime example of this , for me, was the Nokia N900. It was their flagship phone, I got one in their store in London and within 6 months it was pretty much unsupported, as Nokia changed focus again.
Also whilst the hardware was good the software wasn't great quality...
- trm42 11y agoOne of the things Apple changed was how the software was perceived for phones. Nokia (or the others) didn't update that much the firmwares for the old models. They just fixed the problems and added features to the new models. They were coming from simple phones that were not flashable in the beginning and they just wanted to sell more phones instead of supporting the old ones. It's ironic how Apple is selling amazing amounts of phones with just few models and upgrading the software and features few times a year.
- seba_dos1 11y agoThe Internet Tablet series, which is what N900 came from, actually was a bit different. Nokia N800 got an update from OS2007 to OS2008, and Nokia 770, while officially supported from OS2005 to OS2006, has been updated via semi-official "Hacker Editions" all the way to OS2008. It was N900's Maemo 5 (Fremantle) where they finally stopped supporting earlier models.