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Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]

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Re: Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]

#17

I was there at the time and until the end. That cartoon meme with the dog sitting with a cup of coffee or whatever and telling himself "This is fine", while everything is on fire, is probably the best way to describe how things felt at nokia back then.

Can you explain why every good phone that Nokia released during the period was killed instantly?

To this day I've not seen a phone that felt more responsive than the Nokia N9, which also looked amazing. Yet it was killed pretty much the second it was released.

Re: Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]

#18
This is fascinating. A reminder that being (broadly) right in your analysis doesn't necessarily mean you can execute to turn things around.

They note the impact to the high-end, the fact that UI is crucial, they even had a good guess at 2008 sales numbers (estimate 14m, looks like real was 13m).

I was intrigued by this bullet point on how their Maemo platform could help:

* Cellular development of the maemo platform and the politics surrounding it?

Any folks from Nokia in this time care to shed more light on that? I always felt the N9 was a beautiful piece of design and implementation - just late and under-supported.

Re: Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]

#19

I was there at the time and until the end. That cartoon meme with the dog sitting with a cup of coffee or whatever and telling himself "This is fine", while everything is on fire, is probably the best way to describe how things felt at nokia back then.

I believe it lol, in the presentation you can see they are still moving forward with the sms focused windowing design while the iphone was introducing the touch screen.

Now of course I’m looking at it retrospectively but still

Re: Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]

#20
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Currently erroring out for me: > Error establishing a database connection How is this already at the top of HN frontpage with just 6 points and zero comments as of my writing

Don't fret. The IT systems in Finland's top polytechnic grad school have always been shit.
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