When thinking about the number of devices shipping out of Apple, and the relative value of those units compared to the competition you have to always think of the platform. The market leader Nokia claimed to have sold 16+ million smartphones in the quarter. When comparing platforms, to whatever Apple ships in iPhones you have [...]
Apple Analysis Continued: On Units
Published in October 20th, 2009
Posted by ChairmanMEOW! in Digital Thoughts
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Nokia: Trouble Comes with Music
Published in October 17th, 2009
Posted by ChairmanMEOW! in Digital Thoughts
Nokia does not seem to get Comes With Music service off the ground. Here are some numbers. The official blog on which Nokia is celebrating CWM’s first birthday acknowledges: “Sure, it didn’t start out that rosy, with many people not really certain about what Comes With Music offered … we never shied away from the important education process that [...]
Putting Nokia back together
Published in September 1st, 2009
Posted by ChairmanMEOW! in Digital Thoughts
We are delving into analyzing a bit deeper what moves the mobile industry and what ‘blind spots’ might be behind the perceived Nokia’s weakened position on the market.
Getting Ready for Slush Helsinki: Alpha Influencers in a Beta Society
Published in November 23rd, 2008
Posted by ChairmanMEOW! in Digital Thoughts
That’s what we Finns have become. Finns who once used to be famous for keeping the silence in six languages. Finns who when encountering an elephant in the jungle would go: ‘I wonder what he thinks of me?’. This is now a hotspot for innovation. People say it is because of Nokia but I believe [...]
Orange Rides the Social Wave
Published in April 24th, 2008
Posted by ChairmanMEOW! in Digital Thoughts
MocoNews today picked up an interesting story on Orange having cut a deal with Facebook and MySpace for free browsing on those sites for their prepaid users. According to the article, by giving access to those sites for free data cost, Orange is trying to attract more users to their mobile portal.I think this is [...]
CTIA is over, thank God
Published in April 4th, 2008
Posted by ChairmanMEOW! in Digital Thoughts
Here I am, I guess it is important to take some time to get into a writing routine and post an entry every day so MEOW gets published as it should. CTIA is a sick child – the potential is enormous but the carriers have treated it like the Soviets handled the Chernobyl aftermath. Or [...]
First American Mobile Porn Company Goes Public!
Published in March 12th, 2008
Posted by ChairmanMEOW! in Digital Thoughts
Reading an interesting piece: Twistbox Entertainment completed a reverse merger with OTC-listed Mandalay Media. Twistbox is the parent company of Waat Media who until very recently were openly promoted as the leading mobile adult content publisher and distributor and the ‘trusted advisor’ of mobile carriers worldwide. Currently the website is very modest and mentions only [...]
Marketing by “Throwing It Out There” Hurting Nokia?
Published in March 3rd, 2008
Posted by ChairmanMEOW! in Digital Thoughts
MocoNews recently reported on the T-Mobile clash with Nokia’s Ovi service and its ambitions. T-Mobile is threatening to pull Ovi-compatible devices from its handset selection. This sounds a bit like a negotiation tactic facilitated by the press but also like the good old ‘cold war days’ in the clash between carriers and Nokia. The height [...]
Elizabeth Schimel joins Nokia
Published in February 26th, 2008
Posted by ChairmanMEOW! in People on the Move
Elizabeth Schimel has joined Nokia to head up their music business unit under Tero Ojanpera (Entertainment and Communities). This was a long-anticipated move from Nokia – their music business had for perhaps too long been managed by Finns and Englishmen who had perhaps not their ‘DNA’ in the music business. The time is now critical [...]
Joiku – upgrade your Nokia phone into a WiFi Internet gateway
Published in February 24th, 2008
Posted by ChairmanMEOW! in Digital Thoughts
I just ran into an interesting Finnish start-up called Joikusoft. They have launched a Symbian app that will turn your Nokia smartphone into a WiFi router! I tested it and it indeed works. No wonder US carrier don’t want to sell Nokia smartphones – this type of innovations will cause them to loose the control [...]
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