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The value of them is less than 1 million WinMo phone users, when those quarter billion people replace their phones if Nokia doesn't have a compelling offer they
by fleitz 16y ago
The value of them is less than 1 million WinMo phone users, when those quarter billion people replace their phones if Nokia doesn't have a compelling offer they will lose them to competitors. The article looks to the past rather than the future. We are on the brink of a revolution in computing, it's 1984 out there. Looking to the past will not give you answers as to the future right now. Nokia was once a tire company and before that a pulp mill (Nokian still makes the best winter tires), if anyone has the courage and conviction to reinvent themselves it's Nokia.
Symbian is sold on low margins. If Nokia was doing so well on Symbian why did they replace their CEO?
Symbian may have been a smart phone platform in 2005, but it is no longer. I haven't seen anything impressive on Symbian, and of the features that Symbian does have that others don't I don't see anything compelling enough to give up the App Store. iOS / Android / WinPhone 7 have mind share, and Blackberry has the corporate market which is kind of like IE, you'd like to ignore it but there are simply too damn many people willing to fork over cash to do it.
- divtxt 16y agoAbsolutely right. As one of those quarter billion, Symbian is the OS on my phone, but it is no platform.
- tygorius 16y agoYep, brand name recognition and usage is not at all the same thing as brand name loyalty. As mentioned in a previous thread, Nokia's market share has been dropping at the same time as the absolute size of the market has been growing. Somehow I doubt there are a lot of Nokia users who look at an iPhone and think, "Too bad. If only it ran Symbian OS ..."
- fleitz 16y agoThat's one of the really interesting things about the Android market, when I talk to most normal people they describe their phone as Android rather than the Motorola, HTC, etc.