Had they stuck with Symbian and Meego, they'd be in the same position Blackberry is in now. Sinking fast. Except it would have started at least 2 years ago. The Symbian and Meego faithful would have proclaimed it the best thing ever, just like a lot of the Blackberry faithful proclaim the new Blackberry OS the best thing ever. And the general public would have ignored it just like they are ignoring Blackberry.
Hell, the general public were already ignoring Symbian when Nokia was still the largest mobile phone company in the world.
Regards,
SB
look we can dissagree on that all we like, however you cant deny the burning platform memo was a complete reckless disaster, if you are going to change, do it gradually or at the very least dont publicly slate your current and immediate future products. .
Nokia n9 proved a very successful first attempt. ..and thats with no backing from the outset..ie, no advertising, not launching in nokia strong hold markets, equiping it with out dated processor, publicly stating its dead on arrival from the very first day...it still held up very well against wp7 that was already out.
Wp7 was essentially a feature phone mobile os in terms of features and wasnt very popular at all apart from a small group of hardcore fans who would bombard tech site comments.
When elop took over nokia was stsrting to struggle and needed turning round..but lets not believe the spin, it had a solid plan in place from top to bottom with many hours and $ gone into r&d before elop even arrived.
It had billons of cash in the bank, many assets and patents and was still the top phone seller in the world.
It needed turning around but I certainly wasnt finished..not by a long way...elop fucked the company over..as soon as he arrived things went from bad to a crisis.
Apple created the smart phone market. They didn't have to compete with entrenched competitors.
Apple and Google/Android have massive developer support and mind share, something Nokia/Meego did not.
Cheers
This is something that has to stop, steve jobs isnt even here any more yet the reality distortion field still burns strong
I remember buying MANY smartphones YEARS before the limited but slick iphone even turned up.
They had cameras, could download apps and games, play videos, had gps, accessed the internet, played music and videos plus many other advanced features that contribute to making a smart phone.
Iphone didnt reinvent the wheel, it just made everything slick and easy to use, and fashionable. .some of which was through clever marketing which was leagues ahead of everyone else.
The only new thing that apple brought to the table with the iphone was multi touch...that was new, nothing else.