Thread: Nokia on the brink of failure
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2012-04-22 , 09:35
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#270
Originally Posted by danramos View Post
You're so wrong you're raging hard wrong, Specc. The N800 was a good idea that could have been executed better, but it was still executed pretty well for its time--and even in comparison to anything Windows Mobile related, it was BOTH suited better *AND* selling better at the time. Nokia had POTENTIAL with Maemo at the time and then decided to suddenly shift gears and hop up and down and go, 'OOH! OOH! We can be like iPhone too! LOOK! It's a phone!' instead of concentrating on making a better Maemo experience. But NOTHING on the Windows side EVER came close to being good enough for the general public. Microsoft has been at the tablet form factor for WELL OVER 10 years (15?) and STILL failing miserably.

heheh.. Windows Mobile 2012 is still Windows Mobile CE 1999 for all it matters.
The N800 is cluncketiclunk regarding the UI. The N9 is actually nice (except the lagging and poor to no customization possibilities). As a tablet Swipe would work much better than the N800. That is not the problem. The problem is the N9 is not competitive against the Androids or iPhones. It is not even competitive against Symbian Belle. Belle is good, relatively speaking, and the N8 (a two year old phone) is outselling the N9, and so does the E6. You can say that people don't want WP (Lumia), but there is one thing they don't want more, and that's the N9.

Windows CE has never been a complete OS out of the box. It has been a set of libraries and source for anyone to build a OS to their likings. As such it has been extremely popular for all sorts of devices, GPS in particular. There still is very few if any "better" alternative out there for screen-centric devices. Android would probably? work, except it would suck the batteries dry within minutes.

WP is built on a solid core, that's for sure, and it can be seen from the smoothness of the UI. If (correction - when) the prices of Lumia 800/900 come down, I will probably get one. Right now I see no value there for me.