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| Authored by: kuroshima on Wednesday, June 20 2012 @ 04:17 PM EDT |
So, after the Elop effect mortally wounded Nokia, the Balmer
effect (No, we won't support whatever is that you're buying
right now) will finish it? I know that they plan on making
more updates to WP7, but sincerely, I would rather trust the
CyanogenMod comunity with my phone's updates than I would
Microsoft (I'm running CM7.2 on my HTC desire, and waiting
for ICS via either CM9, or one of the many based on CM9 roms
that are already available)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 20 2012 @ 04:26 PM EDT |
Problem for WP7 devices is that once WP8 comes around, most application
developers (assuming they are targeting the platform at all) are not going to
target WP7 devices any more due to the limitations placed on WP7, and the
significantly drastic API changes that will likely be coming with WP8. This is
unlike Android devices, where developers still target previous versions and API
changes have been incremental.
Nokia really messed up big time. Even Huawei did the right thing in scaling back
on WP7 just before WP8 arrives. It will take time to get WP8 selling as well.
Biggest worry is that the patents at Nokia will probably start to cause even
more headaches for everyone else soon due to this (unless someone manages to buy
it all up and keep it far away from the courts and lawyers, seem unlikely :p).[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 20 2012 @ 05:21 PM EDT |
A year and a half ago, Nokia announced it was not going to be supporting Symbian
for the long term, so customers stopped buying Nokia Symbian phones, and waited
for the new Windows Phone 7 ones.
Now we learn that Windows 7 phones cannot be upgraded to Windows 8, so people
are going to stop buying the former and wait for the latter.
Nokia has invented a new corporate strategic blunder: the Double Osborne.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 21 2012 @ 08:51 AM EDT |
Nokia's whole business is mobile phones, whereas phones are only part of
Microsoft's game. So Microsoft can afford to fail with the WP8 rollout, but
Nokia can't. Seeing that Microsoft is now setting up Nokia for failure, why
isn't the Nokia Board of Directors stepping in to save Nokia from Elop and his
friends in Redmond? It is clear Elop's decisions are not in the best interests
of Nokia.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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