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There are plenty of people looking for viable alternatives to an iphone. Everyone gets saturated with gadgets. That is why I think WP8 will have a draw. Something different in people's pockets. Something that will tell the crowd I am a bit different.
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Yes, actually.
Im going to go as far as to say that your argument is completely valid and I feel like agreeing with it. I look for an alternative to Android. However. There has ALWAYS been 'a little different' to buy. People just don't buy it. Android phones, people buy those a lot these days. All those phones are so alike, it's a shame. I have a ZTE, and it's a blatant rip-off of any HTC phone ever. Samsungs without exceptions all look like a digital photo frame my grandma has. Android phones come in black, black, black. And all those chrome borders. Why copy a chrome border? The S III may not be black, but it's hardly looking very unique that either. And I bet the S IV will be black. I saw one Sony (yes, they're still Evil Incorporated) phone with a some plasticy edge and a touch of colour, and I'm like... An Android phone that's not a variant of the Iphone? Is that even possible? This is like a shocking and refreshing difference from the standard Android phone... http://cdn.pocket-lint.com/images/Fd...ch-specs-1.jpg (Don't buy it, Sony design may be refreshing but they're still evil!) Nokia also have designs that differ from the typical iphone/Android phone. They always had. The N9/Lumia phones got a bit of good attention for their looks. http://symbianworld.org/wp-content/u...e-Nokia-N9.jpg So different hardware, Nokia has always had. Many different models, many stylish, some weird youthful. They didn't make Americans buy it before. (Let's ignore Symbian's rest-world sales numbers for a while - Nokia already seems to.) I guess then, the outside can't be enough of a difference. It was available, but clearly not good enough to satisfy people comparing it to Iphone and Android? So, maybe the difference should be on the inside. I know, I personally require both to be really intrigued. Well, on the inside they went from usually quite dull Symbian to sharp looking Windows Phone, right? But that's not either. Windows Phone 8 isn't really the first Different. Windows Phone 7.0 and Windows Phone 7.5 was already something a bit different. Microsoft has already put all it's weight behind that as well as several versions of Windows Mobile before that, all quite capable in it's time. And yet, they haven't been able to convert their massive might into actual sales. Nokia already tried to make people desire Windows Phone 7.5. Nokia has always had the ability to build quality phones (when they want) and have different and/or stylish hardware. The N900 and Lumia phones are already a bit different. Today, Nokia sell Windows Phone phones. The Windows Phone phones aren't selling enough. People don't want to buy them as much as they used to want to buy Symbian. Instead they want to buy Android phones, phones that look pretty much the same. I work in a tiny corp and three of these guys have the same S III. Today I've met three guys who has a S III and one who hasn't. It is not different people buy. Also, if it was different people bought, Nokia shouldn't have dumped MeeGo. Really. |
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1) One of the first and few to have an unlocked bootloader on their phones 2) One of the best Android Open Source Project (AOSP) contributors http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/04...d-whos-on-top/ I don't care about any irrelevant MPAA/RIAA arguments. If you are buying an Android phone, Sony are the least "evil" manufacturer out there. |
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No, I am talking about a company that includes a rootkit on their music CDs, and when they are caught with it, they say it's not a problem because their customers doesn't know what a rootkit is.
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Nok1V is having a good day today. With this, the 5 day graph starts looking like a real improvement.
http://bors.e24.no/e24/images/chart/...2b1b87a7e5.png Unfortunately, the 1 month graph tells a different story. http://bors.e24.no/e24/images/chart/...49cc382817.png On longer term it seems more like the descent has slowed down, but a few more days like this and the trend will be up, not down. 6 months trend still look awful. It takes many days like this morning to get back up there. http://bors.e24.no/e24/images/chart/...b96d65e577.png |
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There is no excusing Sony BMG nor the response from the digital subsidiary head (most likely itself a result of ignorance) but like I said, I care not for the music/movie industry. |
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It's the Sony Corporation as a whole that hasn't kicked that fella from his top position. And Sony has one consumer related scandal pretty much every year. Their new boss of bosses is the same person that was responsible when PSN leaked passwords over and over and over again. That's how they reward lack of respect for their customers data. Also, they're one of the biggest DRM pushers and are playing lobby hardball like few others.
Sony has several areas where they are best. They've always had products with as stylish (yet different) design as Apple. But with it's Evil Within, I am not buying anything Sony again. I am but one person, and people will have different experiences and have read different stories and have different priorities, so other people may consider other companies more evil. |
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Well I'm not about to get into this debate because it's hardly relevant here but It wasn't "leaked" nor was it over and over again. I don't see how being hacked can be considered "evil" though. There was no lack of respect either, they offered identity theft protection and compensation which is more than I can say for the hacks that subsequently happened at other big corporations. *ahem*Nokia But this topic is largely irrelevant here so I think it's best to leave it at that and move on back to Nokia stock. |
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Yes. Seven years and as far as I can tell, several promotions after the rootkit scandal.
As for the password leaks, I read about three in a short span of time. That's the same short span of time where they closed down the entire network for a while. The problem is not with individuals, but with company culture, and when it comes to hating your customers I don't think there's many large companies that goes beyond Sony's age old history on the field. I could name many more examples, but... yeah, let's discuss Nokia. |
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In fact he was not a part of Sony for them to be able to promote him because he was actually a Bertelsmann employee (Bertelsmann Music Group specifically) through most of it and there is nothing Sony could do (even if they wished to) because it was a joint venture. He was always "President of Global Digital Business, US Sales and Strategy". throughout the BMG merge (2004), the rootkit fiasco (2006) and the buyout of BMG (2008/9), right up until he left to go back to Bertelsmann (2011). Not a single promotion. Officially he was a Sony employee for roughly 3 years only, between early 2009 and late 2011. Much like anyone else in the movie/music industry e.g. Universal and Time-Warner, Bertelsmann don't catch any of the bad press though. On the topic, Nokia stock is at 1.94. Good times. One person had a particularly interesting strategy but I think it's actually a bad one because since 2007 it has been largely sporadic. http://seekingalpha.com/article/7475...-by-july-s-end |
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Promotion: "Since the beginning of 2007, Hesse was also put in charge of the company's physical sales activities in the US, including CDs and DVDs."
To me, all heads of Sony is Sony. It's a corporation and is responsible for all it's branches. He wasn't a representative of BMG when he talked to the media and belittled his customers, he was a representative of Sony BMG. Sony BMG is/was Sony equally much as Sony Ericsson was. It's an ownership technicality, but it holds the Sony brand right there and for that it has to follow the Sony brand guidelines. It's the evil mothership that holds the money and power. We can agree on disagreeing. Any specific reason for Nokia to climb today? |
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I see the pattern he's talking about but ever since they last year dropped their largest customer segment - buyers who buy Symbian - that pattern has been negative every year. Such a pattern has to take in account that sales has collapsed completely. It never did that before.
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I think NOKIA is in a much bettern position than RIM. RIM truly has nothing. NADA. Zilch. Nicht
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Stock just hit $2, seems a long time since we seen that :) I noticed this from NASDAQ in the past half hour - Bulls take long-term shot at Nokia
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Maybe now's the time to invest :B
Watch that dead horse bounce! Wait, why is it just today being written news about Nokia scrapping Meltemi? I thought that was common knowledge last month. You know, when the people working on it got fired... |
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Classic Sony was the company that won the court case against a movie studio to prove that VCR's have a large non-infringing use. Modern Sony is the company that pushed SOPA and insists on proprietary, draconian DRM and works against the public good and often against its very own artists. I stopped buying Sony altogether since the rootkit fiasco back in the mid-2000's and I've not really looked back ever since. The one exceptional case now IS the cell phone division's surprising willingness to open their systems--but I'm not sure if I makes me willing enough to start buying their products again. I'd need to see that sort of turn-around company-wide before I might change my brand faithfulness again. Once you lose me, you really have to work to get my attention back--there's a LOT of good brands that have filled the void in the meantime and you have to be better than them, not just as good. Relevance to Nokia? Once you've lost your customers you need to be better, not worse--not even as-good. I don't see it for Nokia anymore--not at this rate. Quote:
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I don't care what nokia does. As a business case they're still interesting of course, but otherwise they lost me.
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Even with that still in mind people have no problem watching these content providers films, yet they will think twice about buying an electronic device from an unrelated subsidiary of a company who actually dropped SOPA support. I just find it bizarre personally, especially when that unrelated subsidiary is quite independent. Although I tend to not hold grudges against any company so I may never understand it fully, I think a lot of people have not let that from the rootkit fiasco go. This despite the fact that they recalled all CDs from stores and exchanged all customer copies for versions which are completely DRM free. They are all DRM free now too so I don't see what's draconian. |
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For something too be really cool, a necessity is HW keyboard, FM tx, SD card, top CPU and so on. Such a device doesn't exist any more. The 808 is close, PureView definitely is cool. But it's a EOL product. So the only thing worth waiting for is a Lumia Pureview running WP8. Otherwise you might as well give up and get a SGS3, or worse an iPhone. If the modern definition of a smartphone suits you, then you cannot get anything better than the SGS3 today. If that's too expensive, or too large, then a Sony is unbeatable. Excellent devices, what is wrong is the concept of a smartphone has changed. So, I will wait for a Lumia PureView announcement, and if that disappoints for some reason, then the 808 it is. For now I'm quite happy with my Lumia 800, the N9 is already more than half way into the drawer. Compared with the rest of the smartphone landscape that is as inspiring as a foggy marshland, the Lumias are much better devices than they (in general) are given credit for. Back to the stocks. Today will be a somewhat interesting day. |
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Lunchtime updates from Europe:
NOK1V (Helsinki, price in Euros) Day so far: http://bors.e24.no/e24/images/chart/...4ecf2b1dbb.png Month view shows a positive development for the last week: http://bors.e24.no/e24/images/chart/...76e8eb9522.png Looks like the value will be fairly equal at the start and end of July. |
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Nokia and labour unions ended negotiations at Salo factory today. Everyone fired, but unions manage to get that Nokia Bridge program extended to blue collar staff as well.
Last Nokia made in Finland shipped on wendsday. The factory will continue packaging phones made elsewhere until autumn when the final closure will take place. |
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I think it will be relatively flat for the rest of the day with maybe a small decline. Fluctuating around $2.10.
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WP8 coming en masse....the stock price will shoot the stars!
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People are now killing to get idevices. One more reason to get Lumia and help Nokia stock
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