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Really? How will their marketing handle this? Imagine three entirely incompatible operating systems. Exactly the same way Samsung, HTC are/were handling it. A
by dalai 13y ago
Really? How will their marketing handle this? Imagine three entirely incompatible operating systems.
Exactly the same way Samsung, HTC are/were handling it.
Add to that, they need to sell Symbian for a few more years anyway.
Nokia essentially dropped Symbian two years ago.
Also, Samsung has gotten nowhere with their alternative OSes.
Funnily enough one of their alternative OSes that is getting them nowhere is Windows and they decided to focus on Android instead.
Nokia has become _the windows phone_.
I don't see how that is helping them. They had huge brand recognition. It used to be that 1 every 3 phones sold was made by them. Not saying that Elop was the source of all their misery, but the Windows Phone strategy doesn't seem to be helping them much.
As of now, Lumia accounts for 75% of windows phone sales.
The latter being around 3% of total smartphone sales, comparable to the marketshare of Bada OS two years ago.
- jeswin 13y agoExactly the same way Samsung, HTC are/were handling it. Samsung, HTC, LG are selling Android. Their other phones aren't selling really. If Nokia sold Android, they would be far behind in the Android market, and won't sell too many Lumias either. Nokia essentially dropped Symbian two years ago. They sell low cost Asha phones here in India (and probably in SE Asia), which I thought was an S40 derivative. (It seems so.) The latter being around 3% of total smartphone sales, comparable to the marketshare of Bada OS two years ago. Breaking into smartphones is hard. Nokia knows than Windows Phone isn't going to be shuttered. Windows Phone 8 was the first real Windows Phone OS. I recently was at a Nokia showroom. The $140 off-contract Lumia 520 was smoother than my Nexus 4. You should try it.
- dalai 13y agoSamsung, HTC, LG are selling Android. Their other phones aren't selling really. If Nokia sold Android, they would be far behind in the Android market, and won't sell too many Lumias either. My feeling is that they are not selling because they are not pushing them much. I don't think Samsung ever made a serious, competitive Windows Phone. Also Lumia is not selling the volume it's selling just because of the OS (actually for some is a disadvantage because of the smaller marketplace). It would be interesting to see how a Lumia with Android would fare. Anyway, three years ago Samsung had 5% of the market and Nokia over 35%. They had a good lead over everyone no matter what OS they decided to back. Admittedly going with Android would have meant that they would have more competition, but I believe that they had a good chance on brand recognition alone. Perhaps it would have been worse, no way to tell now. Nokia essentially dropped Symbian two years ago. I think they have outsourced Symbian support. I am not sure anyone is developing for it or updating it any more.
- hippiefahrzeug 13y agoregarding smoothness: any phone in the show room will feel smooth. that's really no achievement. how does it feel after heavy use, lots of data and apps installed? (of course, the latter won't be causing a problem on wp)