Thread: Everyone else has caught up and Nokia has been left behind
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2010-04-24 , 05:25
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Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
And an unhealthy dose of marketing.
For sure

Anyway, that's a numbers game. As long as they think they can recoup the marketing costs, why shouldn't anyone in the business do the same?

As for the N900 taking away Apple's thunder. Nokia. Nokia's greatest problem (and oddly strength up till now) was its diversity. Except now it's biting them in the *** since they have two (three but maemo is considered a dead end in the future with part of it being merged into meego) platforms to maintain. Apple has one (well they have version differences). Android has one (well again version differences). But compared to Symbian and maemo it's not two different operating systems. And unless Nokia can get there focus straight by either focusing on one platform, or provide the tools AND support for cross compatibility it's going remain this way.
To put things in perspective, I think for a company the size of Nokia, the investments in OS is miniscule. Look at what Palm has done with their much limited resources (compared to Nokia or Apple). Granted their execution is failing flat on its face, I think Palm has designed and implemented the WebOS quite well.

What's stopping Nokia to license Android anyway?
They can even spin off a different company to run it if they want to keep it off from 'tainting' their brands.
See also: Vertu
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