Thread: Everyone else has caught up and Nokia has been left behind
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2010-04-23 , 12:09
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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
...which, if true, would only tell how incredibly dumb comsumers are.

Video calls are available on phones since 2003 or so... IP-based solutions followed later but are available for S60 phones.

If they actually manage to sell video calls (even if only IP-based) on the iPhone as the new "big thing", mankind is lost. Ants will take over and rule the world.
The question is, why didn't it sell?

Could it be that the hardware and software support wasn't available with the right price, quality and availability back then?

few possible factors:
- the high price of packet cellular data back then
- it wasn't as exciting on 160x120 256colors screen
- what video codec were used back then?
- was it supported by as many IM services as it is today?
- etc

Timing is a key element in all this. You can't simply be the first to bring something to market with bad timing and be a whiny loser when someone else executes it correctly to their benefit.

Anyway, what's stopping N900 to take away Apple's thunder?
Can we even play chatroulette on N900?
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