Thread: The N900 Strategy and Why the iPhone is So Hard to Beat
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2009-11-11 , 16:09
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Originally Posted by cb474 View Post
2) The article points out that because of the popularity of the iPhone in the U.S., the U.S. has become the major source of cell phone applications. Hence even though the U.S. has traditionally not been one of the most important cell phone markets, it now has disproportionate influence over the direction cell phone development is heading in. If you want your app market to take off, you need a platform that's popular in the U.S. Again, Android will only compound this problem for Nokia.
This point makes the implicit assumption that US market is equal to the global market, and what happens in the US market will happen elsewhere.

Wrong assumption. Sometimes I want to scream to the media: "WAKE UP!!! DO SOME RESEARCH ON OTHER MARKETS THAN YOURS AND STOP ASSUMING EVERYTHING HAPPENS EVERYWHERE THE SAME WAY THAN IN THE US!!!"

In other point, if Apple wants to rip off their customers, and such customers let it happen, well then *shrug*.

There are many other customers and markets that prefer to get good bang for their buck... and that need a mobile device, not as a fashion statement, but as critical asset for their life. Just check the work Nokia is doing in India. Its because of things like that, Nokia deserves my utmost respect for what they do as a global citizen. And in my opinion that is far more important than plain profits.
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