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Patents. That's what this has to be about. Produce little to nothing and just sue for royalties on other manufacturers.
They make very very real, very expensive products.
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Yeah. It wasn't Elop who created one of the most dysfunctional software development units ever. He was brought in when the damage of previous bad management was just becoming fully apparent. Nokia in 2007-2010 was spending many times more than Apple on R&D. For that money, they got multiple infighting operating system teams each developing their own half-baked thing (Symbian, MeeGo, Qt, S40) and device teams that wer…
Two words: burning platform. http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2012/06/the-fin... There was just no reason to write a memo like that. It destroyed their business, almost singlehandedly, and no, I'm not exaggerating. The consequences of that memo were insane: Nokia's handset sales died all over the world all at once.
Q4 sales were higher than Q3 sales? I'm, uh... how about year-over-year comparisons? A seasonally-adjusted smoothed trendline? Anything OTHER than comparing sales figures in one quarter where there's Christmas and one quarter where there isn't?
Essentially this means that Nokia won't get back into consumer hardware for a good while. The mapping division (Here) will probably be sold soon. The mobile networks business is now the primary driver at the company. They'll have their hands full trying to integrate the Alcatel-Lucent networks business with their existing assets. (Remember that Nokia's networks business today is already the result of a merger with Si…
I just hope whoever buys HERE doesn't screw it up. At the moment I do like them more than the google maps. They are also cheaper when it comes to licenses.
Even now the current HERE Maps allows you to cache full countries for offline traveling and a bunch of other small features that add-up to leaving GM in the dust. Full offline caching has saved me in a number of situations. If Apple Maps wanted to compete with GM, they should buy HERE... and rename it to something better. It's been renamed about 4 times over the last 8 years.
Alcatel is one of the main companies that sells FirefoxOS phones here in México. I wonder if it is the same in other countries. And I wonder if this will affect FirefoxOS in the long run? Will they switch to Windows?
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Nokia also designed the hardware and wrote the software for the N1, so i wouldn't call it a traditional brand licensing thing a la Kodak/Polaroid. I should know, I was PM on it.
I am glad to see Nokia still making strides in any/all areas they can, i love their phones, still do but dont own one for obvious reasons,
With more developers starting to port their apps to the Windows platform, I'm considering going back to it.
Just as a comparison:
Display Pixel Density Lumia Icon: 441 Google Nexus 6 (new): 493
Camera Lumia Icon: 20MB Google Nexus 6 (new): 13MB
Processor: Lumia Icon: Quad core, 2200 MHz, Krait 400 Google Nexus 6 (new): Quad core, 2700 MHz, Krait 450
System Memory: Lumia Icon: 2048 MB RAM Google Nexus 6 (new): 3072 MB RAM
Keep in mind the Lumia was released in February 2014, The Nexus 6 was in November of 2015
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Don't forget that Microsoft('s lackey) took care of lowering their value as much as possible before buying the Devices and Services unit for some spare change.
Nokia were doing awesome right until then! I fricking loved Symbian, so much better than Android/iOS. Oh. wait, no, it actually was complete garbage. But yes, Elop ruined their kick-ass smartphones. Gimme a break.
I think that the truth is that: 1. The Finns got too cocky for their own good. 2. The forget to monitor the other guys. 3. Apple predictably made a smartphone (years after the ipod) and made a silly amount of money, and was dominating the high-end segment after a really short while. 4. Google decided to own the mobile ads market, and basically just not care about the hardware, and was starting to dominate virtually every other segment. 5. Nokia had a few platforms, some apps, and only the dying feature phone market, and they realized this.
They would have had a chance (maybe) to go for Android, but judging by for instance Sony (that I think build the best phones. period. ) it is really hard to compete with high-end stuff against Apple.
So it's Nokia-Siemens-Alcatel-Lucent? A powerhouse!
10 years ago Huawei was busy stealing^^^inventing new technology, but now they are more or less the same size as Ericsson, but growing like hell.
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Two words: burning platform. http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2012/06/the-fin... There was just no reason to write a memo like that. It destroyed their business, almost singlehandedly, and no, I'm not exaggerating. The consequences of that memo were insane: Nokia's handset sales died all over the world all at once.
> There was just no reason to write a memo like that There was a very good reason to write it. Internally Nokia was delusional and confused, and desperately needed a wake-up call. Nothing less would have sufficed.
That only happened because of Elop's previous Microsoft connections and it was clearly the wrong decision for the shareholders of the company.
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Two words: burning platform. http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2012/06/the-fin... There was just no reason to write a memo like that. It destroyed their business, almost singlehandedly, and no, I'm not exaggerating. The consequences of that memo were insane: Nokia's handset sales died all over the world all at once.
We don't have more than quarter-level visibility. All we know is that Q1 2011 sales crashed and Elop wrote his memo. Which is the cause and which the consequence? In Q4 2010, Nokia stuffed the channel with outdated products. In a market that was growing accustomed to iPhone and Android, Nokia tried to sell consumers products based on the first touch edition of Symbian S60 -- the same software that was considered outd…
Even if the burning platform concept was correct, releasing it in a companywide email instead of strategically shifting the company and then announcing the change in a measured, considered fashion would've been much better for their cash flows.
Purchasers at large operators don't turn on a dime, usually, but I would argue that the CEO of a handset manufacturer declaring their entire existing lineup of products is going to be discontinued in viscerally graphic terms is one of the things that might spur such quick change.
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Symbian may have been stagnant, but unless you are a Wall Street day trader you didn't much care. Symbian could demo capabilities that iOS and Android are just now sprouting (and the press is going gaga about it as if it is something completely new groan ).
My best friend got an E90 shortly after it came out. I was so jealous of him for ages. The dialer was particularly awesome. It was the first time I saw a dialer that a) had untrained voice dialing and b) had vocal caller ID.
I had untrained voice dialing IN GREEK for years on my Nokia 701. And it actually worked correctly!
My brand new kitkat-soon-to-be-lolipop device cannot even voice dial English names.