Thread: Interesting article about Nokia's MeeGo work
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gerbick
2012-10-13 , 03:11
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Originally Posted by Dave999 View Post
Ok, so you don't think they still befitting at all at the moment from years and years as the top devices manufacturer and brand around the world?
Huh? Their name recognition is beyond most others will be in probably 10 more years. The problem is that you cannot live off name recognition alone.

And the move to asian outsourcing will make them just like everybody else out there. They no longer have a marketable advantage.

Originally Posted by tissot
Honestly, direct sales via site are not a mass market sales (if even marginal) channel for company like Nokia. And Nokia getting Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 to AT&T is way more powerful than selling N95 from their own flagship store or from own site back in the day.
Agree, yet disagree. Direct sales can bolster your bottom line if it's done right. Ask Apple.

Their flagship stores - all two of them in the US - are gone. I was not traveling 1100 miles to the closest one to buy a Nokia phone in the US. No way in Hell. Having to buy via Amazon or online only means I'll never hold an unlocked Nokia in my hands in the US before purchasing it or going to a bigger city to test it out.

Can't say the same for Apple (again, I know... same example). And besides, store sales might not have been strong for Nokia, but it's a way to keep all of the profit for your company.

The Nokia sales distributions and how they keep going exclusive with AT&T in the US is a bad thing to do, imho.
 

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