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I take it you're reacting to the title of the Ahonen article? It is a huge piece with many, many links. Regarding Ahonen's past, look at his accuracy over the

I take it you're reacting to the title of the Ahonen article? It is a huge piece with many, many links. Regarding Ahonen's past, look at his accuracy over the years in all things mobile phone marketing when many other supposed experts were floundering, particularly about Windows Phone.

pavlov 6y ago
I've read Ahonen's posts for a long time. He was an oldschool Nokia loyalist until that position became untenable. E.g. in 2010 when smartphone apps were already a thing, he was gung-ho about MMS: https://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/06/an-inconceivable-truth-mms-is-a-global-success-at-30b-dollars.html https://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/06/an-inc... "Compared to Facebook, MMS reaches a 3 times bigger audience - its lead is radically bigger compared to smaller social networking sites like MySpace, Twitter, Flickr etc. The same is true of the total installed base of all brands of smartphones. If you only think of apps for Apple's iPhone including the total shipments of all iPod Touch and iPad devices, MMS will reach an interactive multimedia mobile phone audience... that is 20 times larger." If you had invested based on his analysis, you'd have got a business built around last-gen messaging technology just as it was being wiped out.