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Well, Google was better prepared to do it since their main source of income is not product sales but advertising. They can give Android away in order to lure ey
by wkaluss 14y ago
Well, Google was better prepared to do it since their main source of income is not product sales but advertising. They can give Android away in order to lure eyeballs to the ads they serve.
To do the same Nokia should have changed their whole strategy, focus and expertise in less than 5 years, simply impossible for a company that size. Also worth noting, Google bought Android. It was not "complete" at time of acquisition but it wasn't a "lets begin from scratch" kind of project.
The problem with Nokia and Android is that Samsung will always, in every single case, have cheaper and more powerful devices. Maybe Nokia could've keep themselves in the game with a lot of marketing and a bit of luck, but eventually, down the road, Samsung would take over.
On top of that add that Google is getting in the hardware game and arguably the best Android devices will come from them. Even for Samsung the Android strategy might prove to be a bad idea in a couple of years.
- ak217 14y ago> changed their whole strategy, focus and expertise in less than 5 years, simply impossible for a company that size Microsoft was bigger than Nokia when, between 1993-2000, they executed several changes of greater magnitude in less than 5 years each (Windows 3, the response to Netscape, Windows NT). > The problem with Nokia and Android is that Samsung will always, in every single case, have cheaper and more powerful devices. Maybe Nokia could've keep themselves in the game with a lot of marketing and a bit of luck, but eventually, down the road, Samsung would take over Why? Samsung has only this year started showing small signs of becoming something more than a "fast follower". Nokia used to know how to lead the market... if they still did, they would have no trouble innovating to stay on top of Samsung.
- fpgeek 14y agoNot to mention that, until things began to fall apart, Nokia sold plenty more phones than Samsung and had their own economies of scale to build on.