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2011-08-07 , 04:17
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
Bingo. And that's not until mid-2012 by all guesstimates. I just know that Nokia doesn't have until then to do or release anything. A steady 20%+ drop in share in just one year or so.

Windows 8 + WP7 (or WP8) + Unified UX might be a blockbuster in quite a few areas. It'll be convenient to marry all of that together - and plus... Win8 finally is when Microsoft will start dropping legacy support and start looking only forward.

I can't wait personally for that.

Nokia cannot keep waiting. February 2010, they "went" with MeeGo. February 2011, they "dropped" MeeGo. June/July 2011, they soft-announce the Nokia N9. August 2011, the N9 isn't out yet nor do they have dates for bigger markets - no Germany, no France, no England (not directly), no USA, no Canada... not yet. But Kazakhstan, South Africa and Austria all have dates... wtf.

Anyway, let's see. I just don't like this whole fight from a hole strategy.
I get the feeling that Nokia can actually wait until mid-2012, and I base that on the expectation that the company won't be shipping WP phones in volume until 2012. Put simply, they opted for this strategic direction knowing this full well, which means it's likely that they have the financial capacity to do so. Will they continue to lose marketshare? Sure. But marketshare can be rebuilt, and certainly it's easier to do when done on the back of a new headline OS and an accompanying reboot of consumer perception.

But yeah, all we can really do is speculate. I hope that Nokia succeeds because I like both WP7 & Nokia hardware. In a year's time we'll be able to see whether or not this strategy was the right one.
 

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