Thread: Nokia needs to change something ... competition is too fast
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2010-01-08 , 22:13
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Originally Posted by hex900 View Post
Apple is AHEAD of Nokia in smartphone market share - period.
Err.... how to say... no. Even something as awful as the N97 (2 million iirc?) has as much as 10% of the total combined units sold of the 3 iPhones (21.7 million).
Of course, some may not consider Symbian a "Smartphone OS". I'm not sure I would disagree.

Originally Posted by hex900 View Post
4) You only care about having "hackable" Linux. Cool, cool, cool *eye roll* - Apple and Android are showing everyone that the other 99% of people out there don't care one bit about that.
So, why did you buy the three tablets? What did Nokia do in order to impress you and even get you to buy not one but three! units of the same product series? I would guess they'd prefer people like you instead of 99% idiots who don't care and will base their next phone decision on the greenness of the logo. You mention somewhere something about "2.5% of messages IS a big deal". Please read that aloud again.

Originally Posted by hex900 View Post
Running multiple apps is different. Know what? 20% of the world's smartphone users out there say they DON'T CARE.
Nearly every other smartphone manufacturer (other than Apple -- RIM _wants_ multitasking and in fact recent versions of Blackberry have an alt+tab like dialog) and smartphone user seems to disagree. And that's 80% of the smartphone user base! Ohnoes!

Originally Posted by hex900 View Post
BB and iPhone = about 70% of global smartphones. The other 30%? Winmo, Android, S60 and the other smattering.
PalmOS has 102% of global smartphone share. I will personally stab to death anyone saying otherwise.

Originally Posted by hex900 View Post
The N900 will allow people to mess it up easier, but c'mon. Anyway, Nokia still has a slippery grip on dumb phones but many are laughing at Nokia as being far behind the curve. They need to get real and wake up or there will be no more Nokia and Maemo will be a nice memory rather than being on the majority of handsets.
This worries me. Their marketing efforts are clearly not enough, if they even exist, and IMHO the Maemo Devices team seems understaffed and under resourced (note I don't know any internals and this just happens to be an impression which may be caused by the unusual and nice openness they have), specially if someone in Nokia really believes this is going to be the "flagship" phone in any near future, which I still doubt.

... well, come to think of it, getting out something better than Symbian isn't that hard. One has to wonder what the rest of the company works on, though.

Originally Posted by hex900 View Post
Since RIM still is the king of what falls in market research's smartphone category and Apple gained 10% share in 1-year, I kinda think Nokia and some of you need to drop the functional fixedness and watch what the majority wants/needs.
Yes Nokia, please base your entire business strategy on copying what the other manufacturers do (where I have seen this before?), instead of trying to dictate what the majority needs like most companies do nowadays.

Originally Posted by hex900 View Post
It is the aggregate of everything written that will lead to failure. Nokia's (and Maemo's) publicly visible lack of holistic view of the market and customers will be it's ultimate downfall.
Well, tablets have been here for more time than the iPhone so far. I guess this indicates something too. Or not. Oh my god why didn't I take a course on economic analysis!

I hope you read the slides about Nokia's target market with this thing, a target market which values the Facebook widget more than Mail for Exchange.