Comments on: Nokia trims tablet expectations

By: Ed_Luva

Ed_Luva — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

Elop has set Nokia ablaze with these most foolish of decisions. Abandoning innovative products like the Nokia N9 in order to GIVE away Lumias running WP7.5 that will be obsolete when WP8 arrives in a few month’s time, especially when MS commands only 2% – 5% of the smartphone market, was nonsense. Nokia’s MEEGO UI is so good that Blackberry 10 copies it completely–Nokia had it a year ago, but Elop refused to sell it to his biggest markets and later publicly abandoned it, much like he later did by publicly abandoning Symbian. Somebody shut that guy up!

Nokia should follow Blackberry’s lead: get an application compatibility layer for Android, keep whatever company software is competitive, and bolster specifications to meet or beat Android OEMs like Samsung, HTC, etc. The Nokia design advantage and UI advantage a là MEEGO would then be decisive.

By: Ole_Rikard

Ole_Rikard — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:55:00 +0000

Nokia is an OEM the moment they have on WP phones in their portfolio. The carriers and mobile phone retailers are at least as focused on price versus specifications as the end customer. In principle anybody can start making WP phones and many will if it gains popularity at some point in the future.

By: The_Four_Freedoms

The_Four_Freedoms — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:17:00 +0000

This is the best news regarding tablet form factors we could have heard.
Nokia has neither the downstream retail chain, or the internal sales and marketing knowledge to effectively deliver a product of this type to market.
Plus, there is no money in selling someone else’s OS on standard hardware. No differentiation, mean no margin.
Tablets are NOT mobiles phones, they do not sell via “carriers” or mobile phone retailers.
Nokia do not have the resources to waste of this type of folly.

By: Atlant Schmidt

Atlant Schmidt — Mon, 07 May 2012 11:46:00 +0000

Nokia’s principal problem in the late 2000′s was that they had spent years carefully crafting all the layers of management so that they were completely incapable of taking fast action, of making fast, accurate decisions. Oh, Nokia was full of directors, VPs, Senior VPs, Executive VPs, and the like who could *STOP* things, but they had no one who could say: “Here’s a situation; Now pull out all the stops and do something about it!”. Inevitably, with any change, someone would pop up and say “No, I’m the Lead Industrial Designer in charge of Blue UI Features in the Upper Right-Hand Corner of the Screen and you can’t do that!”

It’s for this reason that the iPhone caught Nokia looking like a deer in the headlights. Nokia not only didn’t understand what it signified when Apple first released the iPhone, the leadership at Nokia were culturally incapable of reacting even when they were told, repeatedly, by internal and external sources what the iPhone meant.

And Android only made the situation worse. Now there were two highly capable competitors to Nokia’s old, obsolete products. At that point, Nokia’s fate was sealed.

By: n900mixalot

n900mixalot — Mon, 07 May 2012 10:11:00 +0000

It is like playing double dutch with that annoying chick who is always going, “Ok, wait! … okay… WAIT WAIT… okay on a count of three–one, two, WAIT WAIT WAIT!”

Blankety blank blank just JUMP THE HELL IN!!!!