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As far as I understand Nokia was doing fine and was even ready to launch its own smartphone OS before it got subverted by a Microsoft manager that brought Windo
by josefx 6y ago
As far as I understand Nokia was doing fine and was even ready to launch its own smartphone OS before it got subverted by a Microsoft manager that brought Windows Mobile and killed any chance it had to compete.
> Both Tesla and Apple have that premium brand reputation, and older brands are perceived as legacy.
In other words: overpriced crap vs. tried and tested.
- coryrc 6y agoThe board hired him specifically to try and sell the company to Microsoft.
- underwater 6y agoThat's a bit of a generous assessment. They had an OS that was launched on one premium phone, well behind iOS, Android and Windows phone. A company like Nokia would struggle to turn their Symbian dumb phone market share into something that could win against Android.
- josefx 6y ago> They had an OS that was launched on one premium phone, well behind iOS, Android and Windows phone. Nokia had Maemo since 2005 and tried to move to MeeGo in 2010. IOS was 2007, Android happened 2008 and Microsoft had almost no success with Windows Mobile, only launching Windows Phone near the end of 2010. Weird definition of well behind.
- underwater 6y agoYou're right. I completely messed up the timings in my memory. That said, Windows Phone was widely available in 2010. Whereas Nokia hadn't widely rolled out either Maemo or MeeGo.