Thread: Why do North American journalists ignore Nokia and Maemo?
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2010-01-15 , 20:23
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
Please.

Nokia has pretty consistently ignored the US market for the past 5 years and the result has been very poor customer service, poor phone selection and no consumer exposure.
...aaand as I've said many times we can point the blame further down to US carriers and the FCC who insist on perpetuating a closed, customer-hostile ecosystem that runs counter to Nokia's open, feature-rich phone design preferences.

Nokia's attempt to change things failed and backfired thanks to competitors who sucked up to carriers. Now they have to work to regain carrier trust... not easy.
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