Thread: The end of the Nokia Smart phone dream
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jonin60seconds is offline jonin60seconds
2010-09-14 , 13:36
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
Why is that scary? If you were to talk to anybody deep in the camp of any other phone or OS, they all want their platform of choice to be the definitive winner.

Ask the Linux fan. They want everybody to switch to Linux. Or ask the Mac fan... they sure as hell want everybody to switch to OS X.

The move to monolithic groups controlling damn near everything - whether it's anarchy, full-blown submission, or kowtowing to a new master next week... the want for to be accepted by others is just plain human.

With that said, I once thought I'd love to see Nokia produce an Android phone. It would be one of the best built Android phones out there. But now? Not so much.

I fear what they'd do to the UI. Or to the Android Market.
Yeah you and southwalesboy make a good point. Its not healthy to have one OS dominate the market. For now iPhone and Blackberry (sort of!) are keeping up but I don't know what happens when one of the wins the race (and my prediction is Android). At least for now, if all phones battle in the Android market, it means they can only outdo eachother on hardware and UI which is great as there are some amazing new phones (and slates/tablets) coming out.

Also, I am not an Android fanboy, I simply don't like iPhones, Nokia have lost and Blackberry is boring. I'd love to see a Linux platform become a major player but it seems to late to enter the game as they will always be killed by the larger app stores