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Don't know if you remember the Nokia era? Everyone had the same charger, and people used each others nokia charger all the time.
by hyperman1 5y ago
Don't know if you remember the Nokia era? Everyone had the same charger, and people used each others nokia charger all the time.
- heisenbit 5y agoAnd what about the other connector at the bottom? There was power and data handled separately. I remember getting a successor Nokia phone with the physically same connector and not working in my car adapter. I also remember my Nokia headset having a different charging port diameter than my phone. Nokia failed to fully exploit the platform they had - not even considering the head-start they had on the app store front.
- Hamuko 5y agoThere were actually two different Nokia chargers, with the newer one using a smaller barrel jack. So even when living in Finland, where everyone had a Nokia or two, you'd still have some confusion since someone had the older barrel jack and someone had the newer barrel jack.
- hyperman1 5y agoThat was later on, and one of the dumber things Nokia did. People bought Nokia just for the ease of charging, then found out they had an incompatible charger nonetheless. That one burnt a lot of goodwill. It seems Nokia never realized what power they had with their de facto market standards. They threw it all away for no reason at all. They were also one of the few who had a chance to have a smartphone platform like android and apple. People would trust them,even if they were late to market. But their infighting made them blind to their own potential. The whole Microsoft thing at the end was just the cherry on top.