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Rescuing Nokia? A former exec has a radical plan

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Re: Rescuing Nokia? A former exec has a radical plan

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bawatski wrote: post #10
koevet wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shipping Android phones would be probably a smart move for Nokia but I don't think the company wants to be bound to Google that much. Instead of insisting on Symbian, they should have worked on developing a proper Linux-based OS. Maybe is not relevant, but Linus Torvalds is Finnish and the country, even if rather small, has the brain power to do that. Maybe now is too late and probably the Android move would be the s…

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Re: Rescuing Nokia? A former exec has a radical plan

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Post by zokier »

koevet wrote: post #8
juanefren wrote: post #5

I (and also a lot of people) think they ought to ship Android phones, How bad could be for them that option? my limited vision says it is an excellent choice.

Shipping Android phones would be probably a smart move for Nokia but I don't think the company wants to be bound to Google that much. Instead of insisting on Symbian, they should have worked on developing a proper Linux-based OS. Maybe is not relevant, but Linus Torvalds is Finnish and the country, even if rather small, has the brain power to do that. Maybe now is too late and probably the Android move would be the s…

Nokia has shipped mobile Linux devices(770, N800, N810) long before no one even imagined Android. With touchscreens and all.

Re: Rescuing Nokia? A former exec has a radical plan

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Post by bigtones »

koevet wrote: post #8
juanefren wrote: post #5

I (and also a lot of people) think they ought to ship Android phones, How bad could be for them that option? my limited vision says it is an excellent choice.

Shipping Android phones would be probably a smart move for Nokia but I don't think the company wants to be bound to Google that much. Instead of insisting on Symbian, they should have worked on developing a proper Linux-based OS. Maybe is not relevant, but Linus Torvalds is Finnish and the country, even if rather small, has the brain power to do that. Maybe now is too late and probably the Android move would be the s…

They should ship Android phones now. This will buy them a year and a half in which to progress their own operating system to the point of it being competitive, at which point they can launch phones with that, and have it be a differentiating factor amongst the, by then, sea of Android phones. They have no viable product in the smart phone space now, and the feature phone market has increasingly limited profit margins, so Android is the best option.

Re: Rescuing Nokia? A former exec has a radical plan

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Post by bigtones »

Setsuna wrote: post #4

IMO, the problem with Nokia or for that matter MS/Palm/etc is not a lack of innovation but rather a lack of confidence in their innovations.

Palm had confidence in it's innovations and look how that went. It's a very long road from innovation to shipping product - just ask Microsoft's Kin team.

Re: Rescuing Nokia? A former exec has a radical plan

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Post by thewileyone »

marty_himself wrote: post #12

My experience with Nokia is: great hardware and absolutely awful software. How to rescue Nokia? Continue making great hardware and switch to Android on all phones, before everyone else does.

Exactly. I've been looking at the new phones coming out and I think that a Nokia Android phone would kick everything else, including the iPhone4, out of the water.

Re: Rescuing Nokia? A former exec has a radical plan

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Post by davidw »

thewileyone wrote: post #17
marty_himself wrote: post #12

My experience with Nokia is: great hardware and absolutely awful software. How to rescue Nokia? Continue making great hardware and switch to Android on all phones, before everyone else does.

Exactly. I've been looking at the new phones coming out and I think that a Nokia Android phone would kick everything else, including the iPhone4, out of the water.

I don't know if they'd ever be as beautiful as an iPhone, but on the other hand, they'd likely be able to make phone calls even if you did things like hold them in your hand. And, joking aside, I have a suspicion that Nokia does more in terms of design and testing to ensure that dropping the phone isn't going to wreck it. Probably more so on the lower end phones that are likely to be owned by teenagers, but my wife and I have had Nokia phones for a while, dropped them every now and then, and (fingers crossed) never had a problem.

Re: Rescuing Nokia? A former exec has a radical plan

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Post by thewileyone »

koevet wrote: post #8
juanefren wrote: post #5

I (and also a lot of people) think they ought to ship Android phones, How bad could be for them that option? my limited vision says it is an excellent choice.

Shipping Android phones would be probably a smart move for Nokia but I don't think the company wants to be bound to Google that much. Instead of insisting on Symbian, they should have worked on developing a proper Linux-based OS. Maybe is not relevant, but Linus Torvalds is Finnish and the country, even if rather small, has the brain power to do that. Maybe now is too late and probably the Android move would be the s…

Right now, the 400lb pound gorilla for all phone companies is Apple. Moving to Android is the best thing for Nokia to do because of the availability of applications, interests, etc. To build something to compete from the ground-up would be insane.

Nokia should take a page out of the HTC playbook: Implement Android but have it's own flavor through TouchFlo.

Re: Rescuing Nokia? A former exec has a radical plan

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Post by retube »

plinkplonk wrote: post #3

From the article. "Essentially, Nokia has forgotten how to bring innovative products to market. This is despite a rich R&D base, which has pioneered many of the innovations competitors now feature. Instead, a risk-averse bureaucracy has grown up that stifles innovation – it makes progress slow or non-existent." An old and familiar story. "his diagnosis may be familiar, but the proposals quite radical. ... a bloodbath…

But what does "VP" mean? These titles are distributed pretty liberally, do not have a consistent rank/role across employers, and tend to represent very different things between say the UK, US and Finland. E.g - look at your average investment bank: VP is basically rank-and-file, and form the core group of the people that do the work.
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