Nokia is under pressure from Silicon Valley
 

"Nokia's chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo concedes the Finnish company is under pressure.

"There is no doubt the center of mobile innovation has shifted from Europe to Silicon Valley. We are working to tap into this innovation," Kallasvuo told analysts earlier this month. He said Nokia had installed more than 3,300 employees in North America to redress the balance.

When Kallasvuo took over as CEO in 2006, he announced that a top priority for Nokia would be to improve its performance in the U.S. market, but success has been elusive. Sales volumes in North America plunged more than 7 percent in the last quarter from a year earlier to 3.8 million devices, which does little for the company's image in the region."

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Re: NOKIA concedes iphone superior............
 

So for you "Silicon Valley" = "iPhone"?

Anyway, good luck with this discussion. Moving it to General.

Re: NOKIA concedes iphone superior............
 

would seem he / she buys only apple and thus sillicon valley must mean apple. no idea what the other business's are doing there inthe apple state.

Re: NOKIA concedes iphone superior............
 

They are not going to make any progress with the way they are treating their flagship N900 customers. First rule of business - Make your existing customers happy.

Re: NOKIA concedes iphone superior............
 

Employees had been 'installed'?

Re: NOKIA concedes iphone superior............
 

The overall article is not disputable, but some details are:

N-Gage was first a gaming hardware platform, then a software platform, not a single game.

And Nokia did not lag with sliders. I think most of us know who made the "Matrix phone".

You'd think an analyst would get his details right, given that info is just a click away...

Re: NOKIA concedes iphone superior............
 

yeah installed imployees. Employees are like software or applications. Due to Nokia is short in applications for N900, its installed more than 3000 more employees to Maemo5 to boosting the amount of installable item in Ovi Store and Repos. lol

This is hillarious!

Re: NOKIA concedes iphone superior............
 

And I owned a 7710 (a touchscreen Symbian phone) - before the 770 tablet was released.

But, I've lived in Silicon Valley, there is a lot of innovation there (here - I still live only a little north of the valley proper).

Apple is part of it, but they are not the whole. And there's a reasonably large Nokia facility right off the 101 highway which runs between San Francisco and San Jose (and beyond).

And, a large Evil Empire (sorry, Microsoft :)) campus in Mountain View.

Re: NOKIA concedes iphone superior............
 

Kinda picky Texrat, N-Gage was a flop, and the "matrix" phone, wasn't a slider in terms of today's sliders. yes, it had a slidy bit, but not a slider form factor.

Re: NOKIA concedes iphone superior............
 

You sir are dumb.. And in fact everyone like you is dumb.. How many times do people have to say that the N900 is NOT Nokia's flagship phone.. Sadly, the N97 is their flagship phone!!!

Still doesn't explain why Nokia should treat the s60 owners any better..