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Nokia failed for the same reason BlackBerry did - they never were able to make the leap to the new market. Nokia was optimized for another field entirely, it's
by jariel 6y ago
Nokia failed for the same reason BlackBerry did - they never were able to make the leap to the new market.
Nokia was optimized for another field entirely, it's rare that companies can pivot.
The issues you highlight are side effects of that.
- pjmlp 6y agoWhat new market? App Stores? Not being a well received brand in US? They were already on Symbian before iPhone was even an idea. And in what concerns Android, their phones (yes manufactured via HMD) are one of the best in what concerns updates, with their traditional hardware. With one of the offices being the Espoo building that I visited so many times.
- jariel 6y agoNokia never made the full shift to smartphones and everything about it's early smart phone offers were derived from feature phones. BlackBerry was an 'in between' and was really good at the killer feature 'email' but nothing else. Microsoft was too late with a decent offer. Nokia was a feature phone company that died with the feature phone era.
- pjmlp 6y agoiPhone v1.0 was a toy when placed against any Symbian phone. Calling devices with touch screens, C++, Java (ME + Symbian extensions), Flash, Python and a Web Runtime a feature phone. Not only it is rediculous, it proves how little you understand Nokia's offering before iPhone was even an idea. Nokia not only is alive, it owns Bell Labs nowadays.