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If they don't, past experience suggests they'll end up with smartphones that no one in North America will want to buy.
by alex_c 16y ago
If they don't, past experience suggests they'll end up with smartphones that no one in North America will want to buy.
- rbanffy 16y ago> they'll end up with smartphones that no one in North America will want to buy. It's not like everyone in NA wants to buy a WP7 phone now. If they change the UI enough, maybe someone will want it.
- alex_c 16y agoI don't disagree. I just haven't seen any evidence from Nokia, based on their own UIs, that they can make the WP7 UI more desirable, rather than less or the same.
- rbanffy 16y agoHaving the choice between 100% certain doom and 95% certain doom, I'd go for the second. Just not very enthusiastically.
- wmf 16y agoI think this argument could go either way. As a "commodity" WP7 phone maker, Nokia might be able to get 20% of the WP7 market on brand recognition alone. But a crappified version of WP7 might earn them 0% of the market instead.
- com 16y agoAs someone who values a fairly broad oligarchy of phone ecosystems, I'm frightened that Nokia will have 20% of a WP7 market that is perhaps a little more than one or two million devices per year, and stagnant. WP7 (or 8 for that matter) isn't going to be helped in this kind of scenario by a bleeding vendor that can't sell more than a few hundred thousand devices. As consumers, we're not going to be helped by the death-by-a-thousand-downsizings of Nokia (a business that has a good record otherwise of innovation in technology and market development, at least until the last few years) and a side show of a user community that can't support development of innovative software and business models.