Thread: Let's talk Nokia stock. Really.
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2013-01-04 , 18:55
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#1156
Originally Posted by switch-hitter View Post
We can only speculate, my guess would be:

Symbian was too much under a competitors (NOKIA's) control whereas Google/Android was seen as neutral. I have read any third-party submission to the Symbian Foundation's code base needed NOKIA's approval and that was rarely given.

Symbian made hardware integration difficult, Android made it much easier and processors and RAM in smartphones had reached the level they could take up the slack of a less efficient OS.
while TA will cry that symbian app store was the greatest (in terms of size he might even be right) it was the most tiresome for devs. so many symbian versions (s30/40/60/v3/v5) even if one Nokia phone had a good app it was EXTREMELY unlikely devs spent extra 3x more work to support all keyboard layouts/screen resolutions etc. Fragmentation was killing symbian from start. iOS with single form/design factor was killing it, elop could release 20 memos, wouldn't hurt it as much as that single fact did. NOK control or APPL... discuss if you want, but APPL didn't make it less controlled to win.


In 2010 NOKIA and Symbian attracted more new customers than either Apple or Samsung. Not delusion, verifiable fact. In Q1 2011 Elop deprecates Symbian/MeeGo. Not delusion, verifiable fact. You should try working with facts, you'll struggle at first but I'm sure you'll the hang of it.
You should also take these numbers with a bit of salt. TA gives numbers for Q4/Q1, while a slump is visible this way, the slowing growth (thanks to the greatest failed and superbly marketed concepts of N97/mini) would be much more visible with monthly data. Feb announcement is 2 months into the failure Q1. Q4 might look good (which TA abuses to make his point) but was also slowing down rapidly. The memo wasn't an unsupported leak. A lot of people with instant access to the data decided a change to strategy was vital. If Q2/Q3 released devices were a hit you'd not see any big change in sale figures. People still buy good products. Blaming it all on Elop is good narrative for TA, fact is few flagship devices were very sub-par and NOK was getting out of touch (I do agree memo had some part to it, but definitely not as that guy is proposing/interpreting)