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Well the idea was good the implementation sucks as usual. Android without the play store is not as useful or flexible and you can't compete with other budget ph
by Fuxy 13y ago
Well the idea was good the implementation sucks as usual. Android without the play store is not as useful or flexible and you can't compete with other budget phones which do have the play store so you're shooting yourself in the foot.
As log as there's an easy way for end users to put it on it shouldn't be such a big deal though.
What I suspect they are attempting to do is get back into the low budget phone market which they used to rule before they stupidly gave it up voluntarily and the only reason they are using Android is because it's the only one suitable for that hardware however this is not the old low end market they used to know.
Before it used to be acceptable to have only a few crap apps for phones but now even the low budget phones have access to the play store. I wonder if they will make it with this self inflicted handicap.
- annnnd 13y agoThey have no option here - using Google's app store comes with severe attachments that Microsoft is not likely to accept. My guess is that they are aiming at lower end of market where the price is important, and betting on developers to port their apps. Which could actually happen if porting is not a big issue. OTOH, Google is putting more and more stuff in closed source part of OS, so the platforms will inevitably diverge. It might be a bit late for Nokia to do this... we'll see.
- gebe 13y agoThey have already proven that WP can run on low spec hardware though with the Lumia 520. It's also a 1GHz, 512MB RAM device.
- vetinari 13y agoLumia 520 has MSM8227, it is not that low end. It is dual core Snapdragon S4 with Adreno 305. Nexus 7 (2013) is not that much powerful.
- miguelrochefort 13y agoYou can already get a brand new and unlocked Windows Phone for less than $100. Microsoft is already winning the low-end battle.
- skyebook 13y agoWhen did "having a product available" become "winning the battle"?
- shmed 13y agoNokia is clearly aiming the low end market in emerging country. I am not sure that market needs the play store as much as you seem to insinuate. Most of the services offered by the play store apps dont even work in a lot of developping countries.