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Nokia’s Burning Platform Memo (2011)

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Post by physicles »

mxfh wrote: post #182
AdamCraven wrote: post #171

I worked at Nokia as a SWE in Berlin when that email dropped into my inbox. A few days later, it reached the press. We mostly thought ok, fine. What’s next? Before that, we’d been building an app for Nokia N97 handset users, an ever-decreasing market - all the engineers on the team had iPhones. We thought after that email that the next step would be to go on Android. Sure, Nokia would contract a little as it lost its…

It might even have worked out. Just that Microsoft still doesn't know how to run a proper app store besides the XBox Games one until this day. They flooded this thing with crappy apps anyone could submit for some weird incentives just to get their weird app store metrics up, making the user experience horrible. I wonder what would have happened, if they ran a properly curated platform, where they didn't allow for key…

Yeah I remember hearing that announcement about incentives and thought it was obvious that crappy apps would come to dominate the store. Two things would’ve made the App Store better:

- First-party apps using the same SDK as third-party apps. This would’ve forced the third-party sdk to be awesome from the beginning, but it also would’ve delayed the launch of WP7 by at least 4-6 months. It wasn’t until a couple years later that some first-party apps switched to the public sdk and improvements were made, but by then it was too late.

- Google allowing us to build official apps for YouTube and maps. We even offered to build and maintain it, but they simply refused to allow those apps to exist on our platform.

I still had a wonderful time working on the product 2008-2012, but it’s really a shame WP never made it as a viable third platform.

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Post by OliverGilan »

Nokinside wrote: post #167

Nokia's made institutional mistakes that doomed Nokia phones before hiring Elop. (I was there). In a sense Nokia was (organizationally) victim of its own success. During the dumb phone and feature phone era Nokia did everything better than others. Everything from the supply chain management, to the phone design and manufacturing worked so well. Why would you sideline leaders and organizations who build all that and w…

Do you have a reference for that Netflix story?

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Post by anthony_barker »

dsr_ wrote: post #231
stuaxo wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aah that's awful. I remember when Maemo first arrived wanting one, and they never made it mainstream.

Let's compare the Nokia N900 (Nov 2009) to the Motorola Droid (Oct 2009). They arrived at about the same time. They used the same CPU. They both had (approximately) 800x480 screens, which at the time was flagship class. They both used slide-out keyboards, removable batteries, a 5MP camera, 256MB of RAM, and some on-board storage plus a microSD slot. They weighed within 20g of each other. The N900 had a resistive touc…

I had both at the time... the nokia was more capable. Android kept iterating and copying apple until it was pretty useful.
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