Re: Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles
 

Easy.

• sales figures are absolute numbers
• market share is a percentage
• total size of market (for purposes of calculating market share) is not the same as the potential size of the market (ie your reference to "there's only so many humans on the planet")

Simple hypothetical example:

Assuming there are only 2 widget manufacturers, ACorp and NCorp.

Last year, they each sold 100 million widgets. So out of a market size of 200 million widgets they each have a 50% share.

This year, the economy is better and people are buying more widgets and there's a demand for 500 million widgets. However because the CEO of NCorp had been making disparaging remarks about its own widgets they have discouraged some potential customers from buying their widgets. These customers instead buy from ACorp. So this year ACorp had their best ever year yet and sold 300 million widgets. NCorp also had their best ever year yet and sold 200 million widgets - twice as much as last year, unfortunately their market share had also dropped from 50% to 40%.

Re: Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles
 

Whatever the real numbers are the fact remains that most of them are working on ever more inventive ways to cripple the dozens or so devices that Nokia makes, to create differentiation and market segmentation. If all this energy was directed to making the OS and UI better then Nokia wouldn't be in the position they're in today.

Re: Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles
 

Pretty much a hitting the nail on the head statement. And I'm damn certain they were almost there with Maemo 5.

But, for the life of me, I can't get the gist of their UK Lumia marketing campaign.

Tichy Stryder? http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/20...ik-d47vy37.gif

Re: Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles
 

We know in 2010, the year before Elop sabotaged Symbian, NOKIA sold 103.6 Million smart devices.

We know (because ZTE have announced it) that the cost of a license for WP7 is $24 to $32 depending on the standard of device it's to be used on. To be conservative we'll use the lower figure of $24

We don't know the exact number of developers NOKIA employed to work on Symbian, articles I've read seem to vary in estimate between 3,000 and 6,000. To be conservative we'll use the higher figure of 6,000.

So let's take NOKIA's unit shipments in smart devices in 2010 (i.e. before Elop's act of sabotage) and multiply it by the license fee per device that NOKIA would have had to pay if those devices had been running WP7 (we'll have to use our imaginations a little here as there's never seemed any likelihood of WP7 devices selling in these vast quantities):

103,600,000 * $24 = $2,486,400,000

Let's then divide that by the number of Symbian developers NOKIA employs so we get an annual cost per developer:

$2,486,400,000 / 6,000 = $414,400

So NOKIA would only make a saving from this plan of action if the average annual cost of employing each Symbian developer was greater than $414,000.

Mmm... do you think that's likely? :rolleyes:

And we were being conservative! If the number employed in the Symbian team was at the lower end of the spectrum and the license fee is at the upper end then we would only be talking about making a saving if the average annual cost of employing each Symbian developer was greater than $1,105,067 per annum!

Then of course you need to start factoring in the increased hardware costs because WP7 is much more demanding on resources than Symbian and it supports a much narrower range of components.

You also have to consider the loss of control, M$ developers are not directly employed by NOKIA and so their priorities will not always be the same as NOKIA's priorities.

It seems very clear to me that every single thing Elop has done has been to the benefit of M$ and to the detriment of NOKIA.

Re: Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles
 

forgetting that MS pays Nokia a billion a year and that they have special licence agreement (ie, less than 24$, could even be nothing at all at the beginning for what we know) is not being "conservative" ;)

Re: Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles
 

1. Nokia has better contract with ms than zte
2. You forgot the scenario that nokias smartphone platform dies (symbian/wp) and they want to stay alive as pure service company. Symbian = certain default, wp = stop making phones and paying from os development
3. Nokias priorities are their services on top of wp (in west), wheres the problem?
4. Increased hw costs are temporary, have you ignored every piece of news from wp camp?

sihg...maybe this is enough for this thread. At least for me.

I beg everyone to research themselves instead of believing everything symbian fanboy say. And naturally everyone should take my writings with a grain of salt or find the sources themselves.

Re: Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles
 

^

We know the nokia board doesn't care about platforms. In fact it hates them and just wants to pass the time until platforms become irrelevant. In that respect they are actually far ahead of their time. It could happen faster than we think though. E.g. platform independent cloud gaming will make consoles obsolete soon.

In that respect their strategy to focus on the low-end with native Qt is the right thing to do.

Problem is right now platforms still matter, and I am not sure wp was the right horse to bet on.

Re: Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles
 

oh, yeah, cloud, cant wait...:rolleyes:
id like to se you play those great games when you dont haz your internetz (weak network signal or some other reason...)
not to mention considerable lag no matter how close to server you are...

Re: Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles
 

...

True words.

Re: Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles
 

One reason I am saying this is because Crytek just announced their own cloud gaming platform, currently still beta (its called GFace). They investigated cloud gaming some time ago but now they obviously think the infrastructure will be ready within 2-3 years. Never underestimate tech. progress.