Thread: This is why Nokia is in the mess it is and us with it
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ericsson is offline ericsson
2010-10-19 , 23:00
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#41
Originally Posted by theflew View Post
I don't agree with this. I think Nokia's software engineers are as good as anyone else. Maemo was a sandbox. Name another company in 2006/2007 that was putting Linux on a phone sized devices (770) - it was ground breaking. The misstep was Nokia should have accelerated the program. Instead it stayed in the sandbox. The N800 was a great devices which now mirrors some of the larger phones that are out now, but did it 2 years ago (screen size, resolution). Then they blundered again when there was no follow-up to the N810 prior to the N900.

My only hope is Nokia is on the edge with the N9 versus matching the competition.
They didn't release a Linux phone until less than a year ago. A Symbian3 phone (Nokias Symbian) came out a couple of weeks ago. Their previous phones have all been the old Symbian and S40, but S40 is not a smartphone OS. Nokia has never been into OS until now.

The N800 is nothing more than a small PC.

When you look at the purchasing of Symbian and Trolltech (Qt), all this is really obvious. Nokia did not have what it takes to make a OS. With the experience from Meamo and the UI-excellence at Trolltech and the low level OS expertice at Symbian, Nokia is now finally going places. I really don't think this could have been speeded up at all, they are going as fast as it gets without stumbeling too much, but they could have started earlier. They should have figured out what was happening, but then again, neither did Palm or Microsoft before it was too late.

Nokia got it all now. Skilled people, experienced people, full control of two OS'es and the best UX around anywhere (Qt based). Nokia had none of this only a year ago.