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Originally Posted by tissot View Post
You could write a book of Symbians failures. In 2008 Symian was meant to have major overhaul, but supposedly stopped by Symbian Foundation that brought companies that where not really interested and slower decission making so that aged OS looked even more old.
I mean Palm has bern faster to transform than Nokia.

Symbian was going to be dead one way or another, this was one of them.If your home market(Europe) isn't buying them you are in the deep side of the pool already.

If Nokia would have made the strategy clear, inspired the company and made real decissions to one direction 2-3 years ago things might be different, but Nokia still had small window() of time left when the company is still relevant in west and thankfully did it.

It's not what i or the linux community wanted, but at least they still have slight change of staying in the industry rather than having slow dead and no change of having any weight to make a difference next year.
Now I don't argue that given the management problem Nokia might be in even worse trouble if it stayed with Symbian. We can't know for sure. However I do believe that falling stocks would have finally convinced even the most diehard in the management to make some changes.

What I'm arguing against though is that a lot of people seem to associate Nokia's trouble in keeping up with Symbian itself, which is a faulty premise. Symbian is fully able to change and adapt. It only requires people to actually work on it. Which has been happening very slowly, but was still happening. The great improvement that the S^3 is over S60 is proof of that. Given enough time, Symbian could be on par with competition in UI fluidity (and ahead of them in everything else). Nokia's management failures are what's killing it. Underspecced hardware, slow updates.. you know what I'm talking about.

Whether or not these changes would have come fast enough to propel the company back into leading position is something in the "what if" realm. The transition to WP has already done much to hurt Nokia's image in the world. Would slowness of Symbian development have done as much evil as this has? Debatable. We are still not seeing any WP phones coming out this year, so our best reference will be this year's results next Jan/Feb. Even those numbers will be screwed, because of the adverse effect Elop's untimely flood of words has caused.
 

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