Nokia doesn't get it - The Truth about N97 [video]
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Re: Nokia doesn't get it - The Truth about N97 [video]
#2People were laughing at Nokia when they said they wanted to start making mobile phones. At that time, they only made tyres, galoshes and toilet paper.
Now, if Nokia keeps this quality and price on their mobile phones (if this really is what you get), I myself would recommend them to either fire their hackers or go back to the rubber production.
Hopefully though, they see that this is not going to work and that they have to do something about it.
Re: Nokia doesn't get it - The Truth about N97 [video]
#3What's with the Nokia doesn't get it part? The market repositioning from smart-phone to mid-range consumer phone and delayed launch of the N8 would seem to suggest that Nokia definitely does get that the N97 was a disaster.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N8
Disclaimer: I work for Nokia.
Re: Nokia doesn't get it - The Truth about N97 [video]
#4Nokia lost the way a couple of years ago. From rock solid software and physically neigh indestructible phones that you could operate in the dark with one hand we've gone to phones that take 5 minutes to switch on, frequently crash and drop calls and explode in to a variety of parts (cover plates, batteries, main boards, buttons and so on) with normal use and that require the memorisation of insane menu structures to use.
What a waste of a very good brand image.
Re: Nokia doesn't get it - The Truth about N97 [video]
#5People were laughing at Nokia when they said they wanted to start making mobile phones. At that time, they only made tyres, galoshes and toilet paper. Now, if Nokia keeps this quality and price on their mobile phones (if this really is what you get), I myself would recommend them to either fire their hackers or go back to the rubber production. Hopefully though, they see that this is not going to work and that they h…
At that time, they only made tyres, galoshes and toilet paper.
Eh? I don't think that's true. Nokia, just like Ericsson, made telephone switches and was involved in NMT, back in the 80s, when they started to make phones.
Re: Nokia doesn't get it - The Truth about N97 [video]
#6There have always been lies, then advertising, and they deserve to be taken to task for that, but what I find surreal is how much computing power in our hands that we take for granted these days.
I guess one day kids will complain their microsd sized devices don't project holograms bright enough or in enough colors.
Re: Nokia doesn't get it - The Truth about N97 [video]
#7What Nokia doesn't get is that they can't market their way out of inferior products, not anymore.
They have gotten themselves blind on the quantity of phones that they sell and think that the quantity is a proof that they are doing something right. That they just need to claim to have smart phones and the market will obey.
It's really quite sad, as this company if any have the ability to be at the forefront. But such is the mechanics of The Innovators Dilemma.
Obviously Nokia used to do things right but now they are nothing but a sad sad joke.
It's not that they don't have smart people. It's that they have legacy, horrible horrible legacy and a product innovation and development structure very close to that of the most horrible parliament you can imagine.
And as we all know. Nobody ever built at statue of a committee!
Re: Nokia doesn't get it - The Truth about N97 [video]
#8People were laughing at Nokia when they said they wanted to start making mobile phones. At that time, they only made tyres, galoshes and toilet paper. Now, if Nokia keeps this quality and price on their mobile phones (if this really is what you get), I myself would recommend them to either fire their hackers or go back to the rubber production. Hopefully though, they see that this is not going to work and that they h…
At that time, they only made tyres, galoshes and toilet paper. Eh? I don't think that's true. Nokia, just like Ericsson, made telephone switches and was involved in NMT, back in the 80s, when they started to make phones.
Of course it's not true, it's not even a hyperbole, it's simply completely false. Nokia was, for most of the 20th century, large industrial group, making many various things, consumer electronics and telecommunications equipment included. It wasn't like some backward poor finnish rubber-makers in the late 70's or 80's decided to get in a new business, not even remotely.
Re: Nokia doesn't get it - The Truth about N97 [video]
#9There have always been lies, then advertising, and they deserve to be taken to task for that, but what I find surreal is how much computing power in our hands that we take for granted these days. I guess one day kids will complain their microsd sized devices don't project holograms bright enough or in enough colors.
> how much computing power in our hands that we take for granted these days.
On my mid-range Nokia phone, I have a Commodore 64 emulator. I find that fairly amazing, given that the original C64 was more expensive than my phone when it came out.
Re: Nokia doesn't get it - The Truth about N97 [video]
#10A little while back I wrote about my problems with the N96:
http://posterous.richardcunningham.co.uk/dont-buy-a-nokia-n9...
(I've recently switched to the iPhone 4)