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Forum: General 2011-06-30, 18:59
Replies: 15
Views: 5,147
Posted By bugelrex
Re: Nokia closes online stores for US + UK, remaining retail stores

If I recall, the amount of complaints the U.S. online store got was insane. Mishandling of orders, unable to cancel pre-orders etc. Not to mention that Amazon and brick-mortors sometimes got the...
Forum: Nokia N9 / N950 2011-06-17, 01:53
Replies: 7,353
Views: 1,752,792
Posted By bugelrex
Re: The EPIC N9 anticipation thread

Business week article on new haptics screens:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_26/b4234043549730.htm

interesting timing.... would be disruptive if true
Forum: General 2011-03-16, 20:13
Replies: 24
Views: 11,057
Posted By bugelrex
Re: Buy nokia shares today! 3/16/2011

dude, please take a basic economics class

You are seriously naive, at $7, the market cap is 30Billion
at $300, the market cap would be 30 Billion * 40 = 1,200 Billion

Exxon Mobil,probably the...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2011-02-13, 16:50
Replies: 72
Views: 20,967
Posted By bugelrex
Re: My rescue plan for meego

facts only:
- Nokia spends 4x on R&D than its competitors. iphone v1.0 R&D expenses would be much lower than Nokia
- 0% market share in phones in v1.0.
- the only non-apple app in v1.0 was Google...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2011-02-13, 16:18
Replies: 72
Views: 20,967
Posted By bugelrex
Re: My rescue plan for meego

Look how successful the first iphone was. No partners, no experience in phones, only basic apps and many features missing.

They simply released a phone which was innovative, slim, looked sexy and...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2011-02-13, 15:33
Replies: 72
Views: 20,967
Posted By bugelrex
Re: My rescue plan for meego

the "small group" for Meego/QT is 1,800 people with a budget of 300 million EURO's a year. Its NOT small especially when most are engineers!

At that size and budget, it just reflects very badly on...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2011-02-13, 15:08
Replies: 72
Views: 20,967
Posted By bugelrex
Re: My rescue plan for meego

If Nokia releases a Meego phone that can compete with iOs and Android.. it will sell.

The tech blogs will rave about it, word of mouth will spread and it will sell like crazy...

But to sell...
Forum: Brainstorm 2011-02-12, 18:48
Replies: 343
Views: 103,828
Posted By bugelrex
Re: Is there anything we can do??

One of the most respected papers in the world quoting inside sources and you think its a BS article just to get "clicks"... the fanboyism is INSANE here!!

So Nokia had 3 years to deliver, they...
Forum: Brainstorm 2011-02-12, 18:24
Replies: 343
Views: 103,828
Posted By bugelrex
Re: Is there anything we can do??

This NYTimes piece reveals the core problem in Nokia.. They still didn't "get it" after iphone and android ate their lunch... That culture was truly broken and ingrained in the company and would...
Forum: Brainstorm 2011-02-11, 22:25
Replies: 343
Views: 103,828
Posted By bugelrex
Re: Is there anything we can do??

This has to do with hiring mature and professional developers v.s hackers or just of college grads. The developer is ultimately responsible for the quality of their application. A mature developer...
Forum: General 2011-02-11, 20:35
Replies: 28
Views: 9,758
Posted By bugelrex
Re: elop's first responsibilty is to his shareholders, not us

MMmm
Nov 2007 stock price => $40
the day Elop arrived => $10

Nokia's previous strategy destroyed 75% of the corporate value in 3 years placing it back to 1998 levels.

Another 1-2 years of...
Forum: Brainstorm 2011-02-11, 19:04
Replies: 343
Views: 103,828
Posted By bugelrex
Re: Is there anything we can do??

No. This is the real world, not some school.
If you do a poor job and release half finsihed products when your competitors are pushing out stable, high-quality looking apps.. you deserve what you...
Forum: Brainstorm 2011-02-11, 18:53
Replies: 343
Views: 103,828
Posted By bugelrex
Re: Is there anything we can do??

If Nokia employees feel so strongly against W7, their only realistic hope is to make the first iteration of Meego a kick-*** polished professional OS with first rate out of box apps (email, maps, IM,...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2011-02-11, 15:44
Replies: 249
Views: 73,335
Posted By bugelrex
Re: Goodbye Meego, goodbye Nokia

From a business standpoint, what choice did they really have?

- continue with Symbian. With the rate of market share loss it it would be single digits marketshare in 4 years
- focus on Meego....
Forum: General 2011-02-02, 12:38
Replies: 1,963
Views: 564,028
Posted By bugelrex
Re: Nokia CEO Elop lays groundwork for new strategy to be announced next month, a move away from meego?

The drumbeat for dropping meego is getting louder

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-02/nokia-microsoft-must-join-forces-to-fight-iphone-berenberg-analyst-says.html

Stock up on this news
Forum: General 2011-01-31, 22:27
Replies: 1,963
Views: 564,028
Posted By bugelrex
Re: Nokia CEO Elop lays groundwork for new strategy to be announced next month, a move away from meego?

To build a world-class OS and applications you need good engineers. The pool of good engineers is very very small, you would know this if you if you gave interviews. 1 out of 30-50 interviews yield...
Forum: General 2011-01-31, 22:06
Replies: 1,963
Views: 564,028
Posted By bugelrex
Re: Nokia CEO Elop lays groundwork for new strategy to be announced next month, a move away from meego?

everyone should ask themselves.. does Nokia have the software engineering talent to pull this off??

Name 5 'applications' that are world-class from Nokia, i.e an application thats better than...
Forum: Competitors 2011-01-21, 16:06
Replies: 209
Views: 89,566
Posted By bugelrex
Re: Meego vs Android apps (C or Java?)

recompiling and fixing a few port issues is really no big deal. For C/C++ developers its part of the development cycle.Non issue for experienced devs
Forum: General 2011-01-13, 21:45
Replies: 57
Views: 18,725
Posted By bugelrex
Re: Any news on N9

For every one QT job posting, there is probably 100 to 500 job postings for Java. If you disagree, you clearly are not a professional developer.

Here's the data to back it up

silicon valley...
Forum: Competitors 2010-11-15, 16:05
Replies: 4,676
Views: 1,330,917
Posted By bugelrex
Re: Samsung Galaxy Tab Info Thread

Does anyone know of any bluetooth devices(that works) that act like a small phone. Literally a bluetooth device with keypad with mic and sound/vibrate. The best tablet combo.

The closet I found is...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-10-26, 19:05
Replies: 57
Views: 20,192
Posted By bugelrex
battery better with PR 1.3

Battery definitely seems better. I did PR 1.3 OTA and have the following
- stock kernel
- at&t NYC area 2G no WIFI
- google IM always on and connected on edge
- check nokia messaging every 30...
Forum: General 2010-10-22, 02:40
Replies: 97
Views: 44,094
Posted By bugelrex
Re: Shocker! Nokia will update N8 to Symbian ^4 and other news

If they promise an update which allows N8 to dual-boot Meego you'll see sales of N8 skyrocket like crazy.. that's if the n8 meets the minimum hardware spec for meego
Forum: Competitors 2010-09-30, 18:18
Replies: 47
Views: 15,013
Posted By bugelrex
Re: N8 has begun SHIPPING!

Great balanced review from cnet:

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/mobile-phones/nokia-n8-review-50000971/

In summary: camera is awesome, software is meh...
Can't tell if its a production unit or not,...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-09-29, 14:47
Replies: 103
Views: 31,397
Posted By bugelrex
Re: N9 is comng soon??

I honestly think the N8 will sell like hotcakes, people in Europe/Asia are crazy about taking photos. If the quality of the sample photos can be achieved through "normal" conditions then no other...
Forum: General 2010-09-27, 21:59
Replies: 11
Views: 4,408
Posted By bugelrex
Re: Facebook phone - Meego potential

When the N97 was first revealed, it was nicknamed "the facebook phone" by the media because of the home widgets...

If only Nokia had specc'd and polished/integrated the software properly... sigh...
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