Thread: Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo Resigns
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kureyon is offline kureyon
2010-09-12 , 17:32
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Originally Posted by Crashdamage View Post
And M$ is a bulldog with a collar stuffed with cash.
They may have to give the phones away and pay people cash each time they make a call to encourage people to use them.

Not immediately. But they have Symbian to tide them over, same as they would if they followed through with MeeGo.
People like winmobile less than they like Symbian.

A poor OS didn't keep DOS/Win95-98/NT/XP/Win7 from dominating the world. ... People are stupid and will put up with a lot of crap.
There are various reasons for the widespread use of dos/win. Some keywords: standardisation, compatibility, ruthless stamping out of competition using illegal means, bribing/blackmailing of manufacturers, abusing monopoly, etc.

It's M$ Windows. Name recognition.
Exactly - avoid like the plague.
Blind, stupid acceptance in NA of anything M$.
Only corporates with legacy baggage infrastructure will be buying WP7 phonesin any substantial quantities. You really think consumers will rush to buy WP7 phones when one of its boasted features is being "an ad serving machine"?

And Nokia's NA marketshare is so small it can only go up.
In the long term the importance of the NA market (for any good/services) will continue to shrink. Since Nokia has historically not done well in NA anyway, the "loss" of it is no great deal.
Last edited by kureyon; 2010-09-12 at 17:35.