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Relevant: Why Nokia is not afraid of the iPhone (2007) https://www.mobilementalism.com/2007/01/11/why-nokias-not-afraid-of-the-iphone/ https://www.mobilemental

• pjmlp 4y ago
  Taking out the aspect of Symbian C++ tooling, Symbian was great as OS. Nokia's problem number 1 was the political internal wars between Symbian and Linux divisions that distracted management from what should be the main focus, and then Elop brought Windows into an ecosystem that was pretty much anti-MS to start with. It remains to be seen if ARM management is going to have this sort of decisions.
  • KingOfCoders 4y ago
    I had a Sony P800 and it was a horrible phone. Adding apps was a pain, there were only very few good apps, the pen was a pain, UI was a pain (b/c desktop design moved to a mobile device). I bought the first iPhone, no comparison (same app problem but the ones supplied were excellent).
    • pjmlp 4y ago
      That is like complaing about Android from Oppo as experience from what targeting proper Android means.
      • KingOfCoders 4y ago
        The P800 was not a proper Symbian phone? I thought it was one of the flagship Symbian phones back then.
        • pjmlp 4y ago
          It was Sony-Ericson fork from Symbian. Latest Nokia versions were quite nice, https://www.phonemore.com/systems/symbian/3-nokia-belle/ https://www.phonemore.com/systems/symbian/3-nokia-belle/
          • KingOfCoders 4y ago
            I'm not specialist in Symbian obviously, the link you shared says 2012, that would be 5 years after the iPhone?