Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 24th Sep 2010 23:20 UTC
Well, this certainly isn't particularly surprising. The rising popularity of Android leaves more victims in its wake than just Windows Mobile. Sony Ericsson, one of the major manufacturers of Symbian phones (other than Nokia) has just announced it will pretty much abandon the platform to focus entirely on Android - leaving Nokia as the sole person cheering for team Symbian.
Thread beginning with comment 442625
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
RE: Nokia's Big Mistake - Lack Of Innovations
by Fettarme H-Milch on Sat 25th Sep 2010 11:43
in reply to "Nokia's Big Mistake - Lack Of Innovations"
Member since:2010-02-16
they did NOTHING!
Your statements sadly show that you have no clue about Nokia.
While it's true that Nokia did mistakes and and did not move fast enough, it is completely wrong that Nokia "did NOTHING!"
Nokia is in a difficult position. When you are the underdog, you can throw the latest and greatest on the market and either succeed and be admired by everyone or fail miserably and not be noticed by anyone.
Nokia is still the world wide leader in cell phone sales.
Nokia can't reshuffle their whole platform and lineup in one go without annoying many of its existing customers.
That's why Nokia is walking on a second path since years. Nokia founded the Maemo Linux project in 2005. Nokia bought Trolltech in 2008.
Now you can argue that Nokia should better have spend more resources on both projects but you can't argue that Nokia did nothing. Nokia's mindset is to move carefully. Even two years after the Trolltech buyout, Symbian^3 is still just an immediate step.
Maemo 6 (now called MeeGo but that doesn't change anything about Nokia's roadmap) and Symbian^4 are the final steps in the "Qt-fication" of their lineup, resulting in a modern technological foundation.
When Nokia bought Trolltech, plans about Windows Phone 7 weren't available. Qt still runs on Windows CE/Mobile. With Qt Nokia even had the option to release Win Mobile phones and still have the same stack across all phones. That option was never articulated by Nokia but the continued development of Qt for WinCE/Mobile spoke for itself.
RE[2]: Nokia's Big Mistake - Lack Of Innovations
by OSGuy on Sat 25th Sep 2010 12:16
in reply to "RE: Nokia's Big Mistake - Lack Of Innovations"
RE[2]: Nokia's Big Mistake - Lack Of Innovations
by Bill Shooter of Bul on Mon 27th Sep 2010 00:59
in reply to "RE: Nokia's Big Mistake - Lack Of Innovations"
Member since:2006-07-14
Nokia is in a difficult position. When you are the underdog, you can throw the latest and greatest on the market and either succeed and be admired by everyone or fail miserably and not be noticed by anyone.
I agree. No one would have written an article about a failed apple project to release a phone. Who would read a story Apple? That's a company you can't love or hate. Everyone just seems to accurately gauge their products on their merits.
News
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/22/13 13:38 UTC
"The Verge has learned that HTC's Chief Product Officer, Kouji Kodera, left the company last week. Kodera was responsible for HTC's overall product strategy, which makes the departure especially notable on the heels of the global launch of the make-or-break One. It's not just Kodera. In the past three-odd months, HTC has lost a number of employees in rapid succession." I really hope HTC pulls it together.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/22/13 13:30 UTC, submitted by JRepin
"It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2013. This is a snapshot of Debian 'sid' at the time of the Debian 'wheezy' release (May 2013), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release." Important note: 75% of Debian packages are supported bu Debian GNU/Hurd. Impressive.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 22:06 UTC
"The first killer app was VisiCalc. This early spreadsheet turned the Apple II from a hobbyist toy to a business computer. VisiCalc came with room for improvement, though. In addition, a new architecture and operating system, the Intel-based IBM PC and MS-DOS, also needed a spreadsheet to be taken seriously. That spreadsheet, released in early 1983, would be Lotus 1-2-3, and it would change the world. It became the PC's killer app, and the world would never be the same. On May 14, IBM quietly announced the end of the road for 1-2-3, along with Lotus Organizer and the Lotus SmartSuite office suite. Lotus 1-2-3's day is done." Impressive 30 year run.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:45 UTC
"There's a disconnect between how Apple CEO Tim Cook sees his company's tax strategies and how some members of the US Senate view it. That became clearer than ever today after Cook and two other Apple executives testified before Congress, explaining why they're holding most of their international income in Irish subsidiaries like Apple Operations International, which declare no tax residency anywhere in the world. AOI hasn't filed a tax return anywhere in the world for the last five years, yet it earned $30 billion in income from 2009 to 2012, according to a Senate report released yesterday." Just because something is legal, doesn't mean it's just. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and many more - these companies might not be breaking any laws, but it's obvious to anyone that what they are doing is scummy.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 15:53 UTC
The new WebKit Opera for Android has been released. "Opera 14 for Android is built on top of Chromium 26, with a total overhaul of the UI in native code, making it fit well with the latest Android design guidelines. Go get the build from Google Play or point your browser to m.opera.com, and give it a spin!"
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 22:43 UTC
The Verge pointed me to a blog post by Leap Motion - which reveals how their Kinect-like motion control works with Windows 8. "From the second you plug in your Leap Motion Controller, you'll be able to browse the web and interact with your computer just by moving your hands and fingers in the air. With Leap Motion technology and Windows, you can do everything that's possible with multi-touch inputs - without actually touching anything. This also means that existing applications in Windows 7 and 8 will respond to your natural hand and finger movements. Soon, we'll show you how Leap Motion will work with Mac OS X." Quite cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 21:50 UTC
PocketNow interviews Marc Dillon, and there's an interesting note about why Jolla is keeping the display properties under wraps: "We're leaving some of those details out because we do understand that there are a lot of really big players in the market and they tend to take certain components in the market and dominate them. We created the ability to actually be able to run Sailfish on multiple hardware displays and be able to swap components, so this is part of the demand and supply planning phase. We are committed to this industrial design which is a 4.5-inch display, an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a front-facing camera at the front, and the exact specs of the display we'll provide when we're close to delivery." Something you rarely hear anything about.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:15 UTC
"This is my NeXTstation Turbo Color booting the Mac System 7.1 Operating System using a hardware add-on called 'Daydream'. The Daydream has a Mac ROM and a few custom ICs in it and hooked up to the NeXTs DSP port. Turns your NeXT into a full fledged 68k powered Mac." So cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:11 UTC, submitted by Drumhellar
"The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Please note that all fixes in the prior security/bugfix updates (NetBSD 6.0.1 and 6.0.2) are also in 6.1."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:06 UTC
"At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn't developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports' Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as 'crap' and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. 'The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet', tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. 'Nintendo are walking dead at this point'." The Wii U is turning into the 21st century's Virtual Boy.More News »
Sponsored Links
Member since:
2006-01-01
Nokia's Big Mistake - Lack Of Innovations / Overconfidence
You never seat still. You have to keep moving.
These are my thoughts about Nokia's biggest mistakes. Nothing presented below is factual so please correct me if I am wrong or you disagree with me.
Nokia's lack of innovation of the Symbian platform has brought Symbian to this degree. When Apple first introduced the iPhone, Nokia was ahead of competition.
Symbian was already a very mature OS when the iPhone was released and Nokia had the users and the OS so they had a VERY good chance to do something about it but they did NOTHING! Why? Because of overconfidence and underestimating the power of competition. This mistake is irreversible.
Then we saw the rise of Android and Nokia STILL did NOTHING so Apple and Google took advantage of Nokia's stupidity. As we all know, Android started as a BlackBerry like OS but Google realised the iPhone threat was a lot greater than the BlackBerry and Symbian one. So Google took the right steps.
Just think about the mistakes Nokia did. They had this very mature OS called Symbian, they had the audience/users so they had *so* much power but they just ignored the competition. They must have laughed off at the iPhone due to overconfidence. You *never* ignore competitors.
Nokia has lost twice. They ignored the iPhone OS and then when Android came to the market, they ignored Android and now all of a sudden they try to catch up with the latest Symbian and MeeGo innovations.
Nokia is now playing a very dangerous game. It is as if you were lost in a jungle and can't make up your mind which way you want to go and guess what happens when that happens when time runs out and your supplies run out? Well, I think this is exactly what Nokia is doing. You have to keep moving even if it is the wrong direction, perhaps you'll get lucky - it is better than running around in a circle which is what Nokia is doing. Nokia is now running around and cannot make up their mind which way they want to go. I guess they haven't seen Man vs Wild
Edited 2010-09-25 04:45 UTC