DISQUS

frankmacgill · 2 months ago

Jorma Ollila was a man of principle and vision. His successor, Ollie Pekka Peckmydicko is a lawyer who was convicted of tax fraud in 2006. Ollie runs Nokia like my grandmother paints landscapes - by the numbers. He has a division that makes phones. He has a division that makes software. He has a division that provides network services. Talented people report to him, hoping to achieve his blessing. He lunches with Bill Gates, Greg Norman and Norman Schwarzkopf. He's a loser because he doesn't get smartphones, but his bank account is still 8 digits so he doesn't know it. Yet.

Ari T. · 2 months ago

"Jobs took on a vastly more powerful dominant vendor in a hard-fought market, and pounded it into the sand."

Pounded it into the sand? Nokia's market share on smart phones is about double that of Apple's. I'm sorry to say, but there's too much of this kind of fanboyism in the article for it to be taken seriously.

Computermensch · 2 months ago

Interesting post. I used to work with mobile phones and software back around 2000 and predicted MS would eventually sit on the software infrastructure in the clients as well. Never happened yet because MS is the worlds biggest software vendor, however not the world biggest designer or identity brander. However, Nokia and others were occupied not only with their special - design hardware for phones - but also some software. But software was unrealiable and not that feature rich. I also discussed it recently a couple of years ago with an engineer from Motorola who also used to work for a number of other major phone vendors as QA in R&D.

But Apple seems to fill the gap - now knowing how to them small devices, great design ... and they know how to do software. So that finally raises the bar.

Now they have to compete on the software. So lets see when Microsoft steps in.

Gates demonstrated some wild software a couple of years ago going beyond the iphone. So lets see how they will compete with Apple. Symbian wont take them to state-of-the-art and beyond to cutting edge features.

But I reason MS can do that. So their moment for mobile is really coming up ... now is the time to select that strategic platform software ... to compete.

Computermensch · 2 months ago

>>Gates demonstrated some wild software a couple of years ago going beyond the iphone. So lets see how >>they will compete with Apple. Symbian wont take them to state-of-the-art and beyond to cutting edge features.

"They" does not refer to MS but other mobile phone vendors like Samunsg, Nokia, Sony etc.

>>But I reason MS can do that. So their moment for mobile is really coming up ... now is the time to select that >>strategic platform software ... to compete.

I mean MS software can help mobile vendors compete ...

computermensch · 2 months ago

Of course ... another player came on ... Android ... so what OS will they choose to compete with Apple ... Android or Windows ... let's see ...

Kevin · 1 month ago

I used to like Nokia phones a lot. But they're coming out with too many models (it feels like they're releasing new model each week) and I just can't catch up with them. The worst part is the models features and functions are very similar. To be honest I hate to carry a phone which is outdated and not the current model. Now I choose iPhone and Blackberry. I hope RIM is not making the same mistake like Nokia. They're starting to come out with a few models almost the same.