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2011-02-21
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Originally Posted by BigBadGuber!
No they didn't. Nokia's old guard crippled and hindered the project the whole way, instead of allowing the project to get the resources needed to truly get underway. You can see this in the N97 and N8 both being heralded as the flagship devices despite having lesser hardware than the N900.
Maemo/Meego. They tried.
How many did they sell? Bingo. Maemo was step 5 out of 6 or whatever, iphone with step 1 was a bestseller. You cant make a turkey platform into an eagle.
Nokia will gain much more than MS. Microsoft is taking a gamble that NOKIA can execute.
I think that Symbian and Maemo point to the opposite. Nokia has good hardware, but I see no reason why Asian produced will not catch up and match it. Nokia software was good for non touch screen phones, but it can not compete in the high end spectrum.
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2011-02-21
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Its all the excuses of this or that that brought NOKIA to where it is. Excuse for Maemo not advertised, for symbian with no resources. If you look at the money they were throwing at symbian and maemo, more than what apple spent on development, they had plenty of resources.
If I was in Elop's shoes I would have done the same. NOKIA was sputtering for the past 3 years.
The bottom line was money. Symbian losing share. Maemo selling nothing. Who wants to wait????
If I was in Elop's shoes I would have done the same. NOKIA was sputtering for the past 3 years.
The bottom line was money. Symbian losing share. Maemo selling nothing. Who wants to wait????
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2011-02-21
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Originally Posted by BigBadGuber!
Monetary resources, yes, but not internal Nokia resources which goes way beyond merely money. If some manager gets a bug up his *** about some project he thinks threatens his position and has the power to interfere, he might. I suspect that's what has been going on.
Its all the excuses of this or that that brought NOKIA to where it is. Excuse for Maemo not advertised, for symbian with no resources. If you look at the money they were throwing at symbian and maemo, more than what apple spent on development, they had plenty of resources.
Otherwise we might have had a Maemo based phone device years ago. MeeGo, of course, was given less than a year while the Symbian teams charged ahead with lackluster releases.
If I was in Elop's shoes I would have done the same. NOKIA was sputtering for the past 3 years.
The bottom line was money. Symbian losing share. Maemo selling nothing. Who wants to wait????
But all of this argument is nonsense. Nokia has decided upon WP7, the "generic PC" version of iOS that is completely outside my interests and, thus, Nokia is as well barring some miraculously well supported and open MeeGo device release.
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2011-02-21
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Looks like you have an inside scoop on Nokia management. If the mess was so bad as you insinuate, It would have taken Elop years to figure out all the problems and put things on tracks. It will still take him a long time to clean up the house and put it on the WP7 track. That is why I said that this deal is great for NOKIA, but not so great for MS. They are giving billions to NOKIA, and NOKIA needs to get their act together to execute.
The other good thing of switching to MS. You have an excuse to fire a whole lot of incompetent software leaders at NOKIA!
The other good thing of switching to MS. You have an excuse to fire a whole lot of incompetent software leaders at NOKIA!
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2011-02-21
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Originally Posted by BigBadGuber!
That is only true for Symbian.
Nokia software was good for non touch screen phones, but it can not compete in the high end spectrum.
But not for Maemo.
Maemo was offering functionality long ago which WP7 does not
offer now.
For sure this Nokia software was/is far superior to WP7
and it can compete with WP7.
For competing with Android or iOS Nokia would have to invest more into hyping and doing tiny tweaks to the UI.
Some mode for non geeks to avoid making the device to a brick
would have been good to sell it like Android and iOS.
If Nokia invested the same amount of money into Maemo/MeeGo
that MS invested/invests in WP7 (OS, advertisement, bug fix -well no...MS only starts investing into bug fixing if
at all...), then Maemo would be on par with Android and iOS.
Nokia simply missed this point.
And WP7 is the wrong way to catch up.
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2011-02-21
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Originally Posted by BigBadGuber!
I don't think Nokia has ever released this figure, have they? All we ever heard was that it sold beyond expectations. Nokia's executives always acted like they didn't really wanted it to sell. I think the old guard were still hoping that Symbian would take off. They were never fully behind Maemo/Meego.
Maemo/Meego. They tried. How many did they sell?
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2011-02-21
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Originally Posted by BigBadGuber!
Not really, but Elop has always been in a position to make sweeping changes but completely failed to do so.
Looks like you have an inside scoop on Nokia management.
If the mess was so bad as you insinuate, It would have taken Elop years to figure out all the problems and put things on tracks. It will still take him a long time to clean up the house and put it on the WP7 track.
That is why I said that this deal is great for NOKIA, but not so great for MS. They are giving billions to NOKIA, and NOKIA needs to get their act together to execute.
The other good thing of switching to MS. You have an excuse to fire a whole lot of incompetent software leaders at NOKIA!
Of course, the shift to WP7 ensures I will most likely not be their customer in the future. Switching to horribly locked down, anti-user systems are not a good way of keeping my business.
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2011-02-21
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Originally Posted by Funklord
It all depends who is paying. The nymphomaniac metaphor is inappropriate - technology whore would be more appropriate. I would do whatever I was paid to do. If I was paid to do MS, I did MS - if I was paid to do UNIX, I did UNIX. Professionals do what they are paid to do.
Not all coders are technology nymphomaniacs. Some of us have actually found what works best for certain tasks, and stick with it.
I've been using Qt in professional life for maybe 4-5 yrs now, never had to touch .net or microsoft stuff after Qt came out.
It's very simple, choose the wrong toolkit, and you won't find any developers. (or the ones you find, you won't want)
I'm certainly not ever going to code for .net, they had their chance to put Qt and blew it.
It's extremely rude to force people to learn technologies that are INFERIOR.
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Originally Posted by BigBadGuber!
Maybe you fail to realize what's been going on, maybe you choose to fail to realize it because perhaps you are a fan of Windows and Microsoft in general.
Its all the excuses of this or that that brought NOKIA to where it is. Excuse for Maemo not advertised, for symbian with no resources. If you look at the money they were throwing at symbian and maemo, more than what apple spent on development, they had plenty of resources.
If I was in Elop's shoes I would have done the same. NOKIA was sputtering for the past 3 years.
The bottom line was money. Symbian losing share. Maemo selling nothing. Who wants to wait????
MeeGo did have an excellent chance to blossom in the mobile market, had it been given a chance. Google with Android and Apple with iOS weren't really given a high chance of survival out in the smartphone world, but somehow they made it and they made it big. Windows Phone...wtf is that? I barely see it being used anywhere. On TV all I see is Android (Java + Linux kernel) and the iPhone. I think I've only ever seen ONE Windows Phone and still I barely see it.
Yes, I will agree Nokia has a bad rap for not advertising their good phones and stuff, but they are so used to not doing so due to Symbian being a phone for the low/mid-end and just showing up and being the first choice to low-income or budget conscience people. Oh and you dare not tell me that those people don't matter since the majority of people out in the world are always looking for the most inexpensive thing out there that works, which Symbian phones did and still do.
What Elop is doing is destroying Nokia from the inside. It's like a hostile take over from the 1980's in America, but a lot more cunning and stealthy. They persuaded, I'm sure I know how, the BOB for Nokia into thinking WP7 was their best bet and they threw out the old CEO and replaced him with an M$ employee that would do just as M$ wanted; take over Nokia, destroy the MeeGo line (even after proclaiming it was going to be his and the companies main focus) before it actually takes root and gut Nokia of it's IP's. When Nokia is nothing but a shell or worse, they abandon it and go after someone else. Check the history of Microsoft's partnerships. See how far most of them got before they were turned into crap.
Look, I'm not saying the former CEO was any better, but this guy is leading Nokia to corporate suicide. You don't have to believe me, but you'll see it soon enough. Just wait and see and you'll understand exactly what your little "Windows" company will turn Nokia into. Plus, show me some up-to-date information of their "rise in stock" or I'm calling BS just to further your own trollish agenda.
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Asians are no different than Americas or Europe, Symbian is losing and losing fast. In Europe only 1 out of 5 sold phones is Symbian. all of the friends in europe that I have use iphone.
Maemo/Meego. They tried. How many did they sell? Bingo. Maemo was step 5 out of 6 or whatever, iphone with step 1 was a bestseller. You cant make a turkey platform into an eagle.
Nokia will gain much more than MS. Microsoft is taking a gamble that NOKIA can execute. I think that Symbian and Maemo point to the opposite. Nokia has good hardware, but I see no reason why Asian produced will not catch up and match it. Nokia software was good for non touch screen phones, but it can not compete in the high end spectrum.