Thread: N9 [Shipping]: It's finally here [for some]!
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ericsson is offline ericsson
2011-08-14 , 19:12
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Originally Posted by Cue View Post
Social science has no answers, no rights and wrongs, only public reactions. We do have that data and it is not looking positive. If nokia has "data" that shows that the risk is lower and they are going to be fine and that people should invest in them then it is in their best interest to plan a press release. This is the way any social science works.
Care to elaborate a bit on your data?

My concern is that the board has been taken advice from the same bunch that thought EDoF was a bright idea.

Look at the sate of Android now. The only ones making money on Android are Samsung, HTC, ZTE and Huawei. The only reason they make money is they have high priced "flagship" devices that sell well regarding Samsung and HTC, and extremely cheap but good enough devices from ZTE and Huawei. Very soon ZTE and Huawei will take over the flagship throne with much cheaper devices than Samsung and HTC.

That is the future for Android, a place where competition is only driven by cost. WP has a different future, a future where value added software and services will drive hardware in a different direction toward quality and usability, not very unlike Apples approach, yet different in some key aspects. It is not without reason none of the big names have given up on WP despite the rather cool first year.

IMO the success of Nokia in the future is tied directly to how much they want WP-Nokia to succeed and how hard they (Nokia and MS) work do make it happen. The rest, data and whatever, is secondary.