Thread: Jolla's Second Pre-Book Campaign in Autumn
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2013-09-22 , 05:08
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Originally Posted by tissot View Post
It sounds like Nokia looking to continue and maybe focus on its nano technology and graphene. Graphene study where it leads in Europe and was granted 1.35 billion dollars to study last year.
That's "high art" R&D, lets hope it pays-off, & that they deliver real products/services from it, rather than only squatting on a big patent bank.

Having a software platform for lets say wearable tech sounds reasonable and example HERE car platform is already being build on Qt.
Lets hope they beat out Samsung there, Samsung has started to play quite hard in that area with MeeGo IVI & Tizen...
Wearable, I think they'll be too late to that game (again), & if past experiences mean anything, they should probably just find something else.
Then again, even if they're late, the industry as-a-whole will be more nascent than handhelds was, when they failed to adapt quickly enough.

That said, buying Jolla would mean they are buying into a traditional smartphone market and I don't think joining that game with old tricks makes sense. Imo price structure on smartphones will go through some huge changes in near future. As long as somebody doesn't find a new blue ocean like Apple did in 2007.
Most speculation from those that know their "noky" obsessively, is that it's extremely unlikely they'll go back to handhelds 2yr+ from now.
But at the same time, you never can say never....

Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
MS was kind enough to take the c**p out of their hands so Nokia can continue to do other things.
MS was more of the problem than Nokia in that power play, constant/big delays in sw milestones, Nokia mostly delivered for their part, & got turned into MS's bitch for their part.
MS didn't buy "crap", they bought some real talent and IP, whether they actually effectively utilise it remains to be seen, I have my doubts.
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