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2013-08-26
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I probably bought more Symbian devices than all of you combined on this thread. It served its purpose and by 2009, it was clear to everyone that it had to gooooooooooo...........Only Tomi Ahonen and his delusional followers still believe that it was viable. What saved NOKIA, as opposed to BB, is that they reacted a bit faster to become third player. BB reacted too slow and hanged on its improved, but dead platform. Because you cant live with just an OS, without all the ancillary ecosystem.
What did Samsung prove? That pre-ELOP NOKIA should have jumped sooner of the Symbian titanic. By the time Elop got there, Android has signed up many device manufacturers and Finns felt they didnt want to be another ME, ME, ME kind of company. Samsung jumped first and is benefitting now. Kudos to them. What else are they doing? Tizen-what a joke.
What Elop immediately understood is the following: NOKIA is not a software company, in the sense that they CAN NOT compete with Silicon Valley. And that immediately eliminated Symbian, Meego and all the other lunacies from the table. So you are left with already crowded Android field, or try something new and nascent. Hence WP. Using my Lumia 920 and 620. Great phones!!!
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2013-08-26
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2013-08-26
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2013-08-26
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Elop didn't kill Symbian during Elopcalypse. Nokia had already decided to kill Symbian before Elop took over. The cancellation of S^4 was the real death date for Symbian. Only the fanbois believed Symbian to have a future after that. S^4 cancellation had been decided few months before Elop took over. He just annouced a decision already made before his time.
S^3 never had the chance to compete and it wasn't even supposed to compete with Android. It was originally just a stop gap before S^4, which was supposed to be modernized version of Symbian. Under the Vanjoki plan, S^4 was cancelled and S^3 was to be used until Meego scaled down to cheap products.
You can blame Elop for killing Meego and (especially) for the idiotic decision to replace Meego with WP7 instead of Android, but he isn't the one to blame for Symbian's death. Besides, Symbian was a walking dead anyway. It needed to be put out of it's misery.
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2013-08-26
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Elop didn't kill Symbian during Elopcalypse. Nokia had already decided to kill Symbian before Elop took over. The cancellation of S^4 was the real death date for Symbian. Only the fanbois believed Symbian to have a future after that. S^4 cancellation had been decided few months before Elop took over. He just annouced a decision already made before his time.
S^3 never had the chance to compete and it wasn't even supposed to compete with Android. It was originally just a stop gap before S^4, which was supposed to be modernized version of Symbian. Under the Vanjoki plan, S^4 was cancelled and S^3 was to be used until Meego scaled down to cheap products.
You can blame Elop for killing Meego and (especially) for the idiotic decision to replace Meego with WP7 instead of Android, but he isn't the one to blame for Symbian's death. Besides, Symbian was a walking dead anyway. It needed to be put out of it's misery.
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2013-08-26
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There's very little doubt NOKIA would have phased out Symbian and replaced it with some Linux based alternative(s) but once Qt was running right across all NOKIA's devices who would've noticed and who would've cared?
Carriers would have continued marketing NOKIA phones, users would have carried on buying them and developers would have carried on developing for them. There would have been no 'burning platforms', no huge disruption, no induced collapse, no dumbing-down/locking-down of devices and no association with a toxic third party. On top of that NOKIA would have retained control of their own ecosystem and all revenue from it.
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2013-08-26
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As did the millions upon millions of people right across the globe who kept buying them.
NOKIA's software had already severely kicked Windows Mobile's balls. All the good software on the Lumias originates from NOKIA. Microsoft, on the other hand, has a toxic reputation for their software.
You do know Windows Phone 7 was really Windows CE, right? 'New and nascent'
I'm an executive director and shareholder of a manufacturing company. We've made much more profit than NOKIA in the time Elop has been in charge. I'm also an executive director and shareholder of another company with a portfolio of residential rental properties in the UK. I'm currently contemplating buying a holiday resort in Cornwall too.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
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2013-08-26
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I think you are delusional that Qt across multiple different OSs would have made these devices competitive. Its the same delusion that Android apps will run seamlessly on Jolla. NO WAY. Even Symbian fragmentation posed great problems for developers. I hope someone writes a good history of what truly happened inside the four walls of NOKIA and why the decisions were made they were. I bet we know little of the story.
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2013-08-26
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Sorry to burst your bubble.