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By: homeedition

homeedition — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:49:53 +0000

nokia and intel agreament will be the beginning

By: sbwoodside

sbwoodside — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:07:23 +0000

I hope for the best from Nokia, and the N97 was mixed at best. However, keep in mind that the iPod Touch was out before the iPhone, and it wasn’t exactly a secret that Apple was working on a phone. Nokia bigger problem is not hardware but software — Symbian is a rotten OS, and impossible to program for from 3rd parties.

By: asymmetric

asymmetric — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:05:01 +0000

To those suggesting the N97 is a response to the iPhone, please consider that the product cycle for most phones (especially smartphones) is greater than 18 months, and for software changes affecting input methods it’s more than 2 years. The N97 was spec complete before the iPhone 1.0 shipped and was likely not influenced by it.

The article’s thesis is that development cycle times are such that an effective response by an incumbent whose business is optimized to the current market will allow Apple to innovate “inside” the incumbent’s trajectory. To adjust the cycle time is so onerous a task for a large company that doing so jeopardizes the core business and is resisted by organizational antibodies.

What sustains the entrant is sufficient asymmetry to the incumbent that affords a foothold while being ignored as irrelevant by most of the industry.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -Ghandi

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By: Captain Obvious

Captain Obvious — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:15:51 +0000

So far there has been seemingly little activity that has affected the trajectory. Or are we missing something?
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You’re missing the part where it’s 2009 and the prediction doesn’t match reality. Hint: E72, N97, 5800.

By: anonymouse

anonymouse — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:36:50 +0000

Cute, but seriously, nokia’s currently around the 2013 1/2 mark. Initiatives have been in play for a while now, OPK’s pretty on the ball, the restructuring’s already happened, spending has been cut to preserve profits in the economic downturn, and yet infrastructure’s all in place to drop for symbian ^4 the bombshell. (see qml, orbit, statemachine etc, designers dream tools). One could even class the n97, 5800′s and ovi as the first shot over the bow. That said, nokia still has 45% of total handset sales, as opposed to apples 0.4%, and 42% as opposed to apples 10% of smartphone sales worldwide. The juggernauts not gonna be stopping any time soon.

By: domesticmouse

domesticmouse — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:17:56 +0000

Uhm, I disagree with the above. Nokia purchased TrollTech because they understand two things, one software is just as important as hardware, and that mobiles phones are a saturated market, and thus Nokia needs to chase down converged devices.

How long it takes for Nokia to realise that they need to put industrial designers and software usability people in positions of go/no go over products like Apple do is an interesting question, however.

By: Sachin

Sachin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:08:20 +0000

Interesting indepth analysis……I think Nokia will never be able to catch up..at the core it seems to be a hardware company