No more Nokia for me, then. Not that I've been wanting to have anything to do with them in a long time anyway, with their Windows Phone thing and all.
kowenicki said:
He has overseen the transition of their smartphones from a platform that would have vanished by now (symbian) to windows... a platform that (whatever you will now say) has the potential to grow significantly. Without this change Nokia would be all but dead already, becoming just another android platform was not an option. He also put the non smartphone business on a sound footing with the recent siemens deal. There is no gain without pain in this kind of situation. Look at Sony, they are doing simialr radical things, not tweaking around the edges. You are making easy, cheap shot, throwaway comments with absolutely no knowledge of the subject. |
Mind you, Nokia had Meego, which wasn't that far from ready. And judging by the one Meego phone that came out, it's a good OS, just in some need of polishing (which would obviously have happened relatively quickly). I'd say it had a much bigger chance of becoming big, considering Windows Phone still isn't anything big. Microsoft needs to do some huge marketing for WP to grow significantly, otherwise it would have grown already.
