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2009-11-14
, 16:31
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Nokia should concentrate in distribution off content just like Apple...
Buying palm (a dead horse) wont make any difference.
One thing that I notice is that the same media (generally north american, of course) that is so quick to doom nokia tries to force this buyout...
If theres still some sense in Espoo they wont even get excited in thinking about this... They gotta buy some well recognized content distribution and build on it. Spotify would be great (even though its a loss machine still) since they have many labels signed and the distribution of Video will be coming soon...
Buying palm (a dead horse) wont make any difference.
One thing that I notice is that the same media (generally north american, of course) that is so quick to doom nokia tries to force this buyout...
If theres still some sense in Espoo they wont even get excited in thinking about this... They gotta buy some well recognized content distribution and build on it. Spotify would be great (even though its a loss machine still) since they have many labels signed and the distribution of Video will be coming soon...
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2009-11-14
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@ OVI MAPS
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people are over looking the fact the Palm are well know in NA and could be Nokia's easiest way of breaking US market
if they buy Palm then released a few very good devices as US exclusives under that name then it could be just what Nokia are needing
if they buy Palm then released a few very good devices as US exclusives under that name then it could be just what Nokia are needing
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2009-11-14
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@ Italy
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Originally Posted by Crashdamage
Palm is pretty much a has-been in the US. The name can't be worth $2 billion. If it's patents Palm owns, what are they and why isn't Palm making big bucks from them now?
As far as any UI goodies (or anything else) in WebOS, what does it do significantly better than Maemo? The 'flip-away cards' thingie? Ya gotta be kiddin' me...so what?
The PRE is a lovely device, the UI is a lot of well refined than Maemo, the form factor is almost perfect, but the build quality is incredily low and the quality itself is too variable from device to device.
Nokia can inject his experience and his money on a theoretically well done product. Just as the modern engines from Fiat can help Chrisler whit his stone age technology.
Buying Chrysler didn't work our well at all for Daimler-Benz. Smart as they are, they still lost almost 100% of the billions they invested. It won't work for Fiat either.
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2009-11-14
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* Established brand recognition in US.
* Patents. Many patents...
* Expertise in UI specialization & design.
* Pre is established competitor for iPhone.
* Patents. Many patents...
* Expertise in UI specialization & design.
* Pre is established competitor for iPhone.
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2009-11-14
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Originally Posted by allnameswereout
Read my previous post again (#11) and see if you still think those are $2 billion worth of reasons.
* Established brand recognition in US.
* Patents. Many patents...
* Expertise in UI specialization & design.
* Pre is established competitor for iPhone.
Keep in mind that the Pre has not sold particularly well and sales are going down, not up.
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2009-11-14
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Originally Posted by mullf
That's a stock market term? I thought is was a dating term.
It is, at least for me. LOL
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2009-11-14
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Nokia wants Palm so we can use the N900 with iTunes 
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2009-11-14
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Originally Posted by Crashdamage
1) Patents =/= instant money. You can have patents on great ideas but suck at implementing them or convincing why people need it.
Palm is pretty much a has-been in the US. The name can't be worth $2 billion. If it's patents Palm owns, what are they and why isn't Palm making big bucks from them now?
As far as any UI goodies (or anything else) in WebOS, what does it do significantly better than Maemo? The 'flip-away cards' thingie? Ya gotta be kiddin' me...so what?
And if Nokia buys Palm, doesn't Palm + Nokia + WebOS + Symbian + Maemo sound like a great recipe for customer and marketing confusion and complexity?
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Maybe WebOS + QT might be a way for inter-operatibility of applications from Symbian to Maemo platforms. It would also lessen the problem of loss of support when Maemo 5 goes to Maemo 6.
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They're maemo and MeeGo...
"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...
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2009-11-14
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Originally Posted by draco.bdn
I like that.
Nokia wants Palm so we can use the N900 with iTunes
As somebody else said patent. I am pretty sure that the patents owned by palm is worth more than $2B in the long run
As far as any UI goodies (or anything else) in WebOS, what does it do significantly better than Maemo? The 'flip-away cards' thingie? Ya gotta be kiddin' me...so what?
And if Nokia buys Palm, doesn't Palm + Nokia + WebOS + Symbian + Maemo sound like a great recipe for customer and marketing confusion and complexity?
Seems to me Nokia could do a lot more to get into the mid-to-high-end US smartphone market by investing a billion or two into Maemo development and a marketing blitz than buying a sickly Palm.
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Last edited by Crashdamage; 2009-11-14 at 16:20.