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Re: SiliconValley Analyst wants Maemo "Axed"

I think he has some points in that Nokia lacks any clear focus. Too many things in the oven. Focus on one or two core things and do it well, and yes reduce the number of SKUs to 4 or 5 per year wouldn't be a bad thing.

Re: SiliconValley Analyst wants Maemo "Axed"

If web OS was so great , why do they need Nokia?
If Brand, Distribution, and Hardware are no longer important, why does Palm need Nokia?
If Nokia has a confused strategy, why would adding another OS and dumping all its current assets improve that Strategy?

the simpler thing would be to port Qt to Palm and create an even bigger apps echo system.

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Why so much people here think that "reducing the number of SKUs" will be good? It's some Apple-related stuff? Don't be blind. World != USA and IPhone/N900/any_other_cool_smartphone_with_big_screen aren't the only thing that people need. There are A LOT of customers that want only to call from their phone and not charge it every day.

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Originally Posted by pandaboom (Post 413046)

Just grab a 3310 or 3330 then :p

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Originally Posted by 406NotAcceptable (Post 413102)

Just grab a 3310 or 3330 then :p

Suggesting that any member of these forums would be happy with a 3310 or 3330 is ridiculous. Even more ridiculous is the hubris that we're a majority of the cell phone toting population.

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Originally Posted by dick-richardson (Post 413121)

Suggesting that any member of these forums would be happy with a 3310 or 3330 is ridiculous. Even more ridiculous is the hubris that we're a majority of the cell phone toting population.

Ummm... he didn't say that. Read carefully.

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Originally Posted by dick-richardson (Post 413121)

Suggesting that any member of these forums would be happy with a 3310 or 3330 is ridiculous.

Speak for yourself. My previous phone before just getting the N900 was an 1100. I love my 1100; it's great.

Re: SiliconValley Analyst wants Maemo "Axed"

So, anyone willing to bet on what kind of drug that "analyst" has been on?

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Originally Posted by MrGrim (Post 412755)

So why did this guy do the analysis? If it would have been requested by nokia, it would probably have been kept semi-secret, in any case not an open letter.
Was he just bored at home and figured he might as well start advising tech giants?
Maybe i'm just a conspiracy nut, but i think palm wanted a quick way to boost share prices (maybe some hot-shot is selling). And how better to do it than both slam a competitor and say they should buy you for fat stacks of cash?
Edit: is that jon rubinstein character selling shares? Because that would pretty much explain everything: tell off nokia, advertise yourself, artificially (and illegally) increase your share price and decrease the competition's

These guys work for brokers' research departments. A few years ago I met a few to give a tour to our cable headend facility. None of them really knew anything about the cable industry other than financials and the kind of data you'd find in an annual report, but they all acted like we were wasting money on just about everything we were doing. An example, we had a GigEthernet connection to our CO at another site in town, which connected to the regional network over an OC12. The one guy proceeded to complain that we were seriously "over-provisioned" and wasting bandwidth. I mentioned that we owned the entire path and we might as well plan for the future since we were seeing 100% growth in traffic every year (this was the late 90's). I couldn't convince him that by restricting bandwidth on a fiber network we owned we weren't saving anything, just causing headaches down the road.

Any time you see an analyst telling a company how to run their business, it's best to ignore it. ...or better yet, do the opposite. That's what the traders do.

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Originally Posted by ewan (Post 412815)

I'd say most people do care, they just don't realise it's something there's a choice about. People care when features they want (or even were already using) are arbitrarily locked out on their devices, they care about losing their music collections to DRM, and they care when their device wilfully bricks itself because they had the temrity to try to make their device meet their requirements.

People care, but usually only when it's already too late.

I'll agree with that.