Stephen Elop (Nokia's CEO): “Nokia, our platform is burning”

[obemon]

....kung android pa lang ila gi adopt, mas ma maximize nila ang use sa ila mga phones, unlie windows phone 7 na bound ka sa developer's phone requirements. Sure, nindot ang 1ghz na processor, 720p video recording, 480x800 resolution. Pero wa man kay lingaw kung kana ra imo i base sa ila phones, simplicity man ila gusto sa phones gud. Pero simple ra sad au na nobody in the right mind would waste money to buy something that they cannot really fully use.

You have to remember that the majority of customers out there are not like us. We are tinkerers. We like to tweak our devices to our heart's content. The rest however don't care about that. They just want a phone that works. As long as the hardware looks nice, an interface that they can understand, and they can pur their favorite apps on it, they're good.

[dezertfox]

it can't be that bad, at least they finally dumped Symbian along with some Fins for top-notched software gurus for them to compete in the long run with iOS and Android. I've been dreaming of this partnership since the iPhone came out and now finally a reason to buy a Nokia again.

Dili btaw ingon ana ka bati ang symbian gyud pero ang-ang.an man gud kung mag buaht cya ug revision sa ila software. Di man gud mka apas ang symbian nah sa demand sa mga consumers..

The only Plus side is mo price drop gyud ang windows phone 7 since nokia na ila partner.

[dezertfox]

You have to remember that the majority of customers out there are not like us. We are tinkerers. We like to tweak our devices to our heart's content. The rest however don't care about that. They just want a phone that works. As long as the hardware looks nice, an interface that they can understand, and they can pur their favorite apps on it, they're good.

You've got a point dude, but that's just it. There's nothing to do with it. If you're just looking for a phone that only works, then it's too expensive for consumers like us. For example the HTC HD 7 is worth at least 35,000 in the philippines. Like I said, it's too expensive.

[m.garz]

hesitant to sila sauna mo jump to another OS kay dako2x pud to silag na invest sa Symbian.. samot nang nag opensource ang Symbian ug ila gi revamp ang OVI..

pero karon..

they're on a burning platform.. lol

[Ranger]

The bottom line here is that "cost cutting" is never always the best policy.
When Apple just planned to come up with a new product that will revolutionized the mobile phone industry, other industry vendors already aware what it can do...the 3rd party product offering was very promising but very expensive...

due to cost cutting and the thought that end users will not buy an expensive phone in those trying times. Hence, the investment is not worth it yet......only Apple took it and still believed that if you have great products and offer the best experience for your customer, they will buy it regardless of the price tag. After all, Apple principle is that, they will always offer/introduce innovative products to what they think the market wants and not what the market demanded from vendors...

I am in the same industry and I have seen both worlds...good ole days and the challenging situations we are in, up to now...problema lang kay we always focus on trying to fight the $$$$price war for many years now and therefore, cutting corners just to compete..putting the wrong people into wrong positions!!!! Thus, by continuing to do so, we are unconsciously burning our own platform!

And beside, other than this "Cost-Cutting", there is what we call corporate politics!!! Of course, "Cost cutting" is to optimize our resources for better efficiency but more often than not, cost-cutting became indiscriminate by the wrong people in positions!! (or maybe I can put it this way: pressuring the right people to cut cost unnecessarily) For example: how can you expect to minimize competence development to almost zero and ironically, kept on demanding highest level of quality customer deliveries??!!!

Worst, they make experienced people redundant and recruting new people into the organization from outside without any hint of the corporate culture....and the sacked experienced people joined these new players in the industry and these new players now fast become serious threats to the established vendors in the industry.

And by the way, ever wonder why you persistently lost your cellphone loads? blame it to the Symbian OS hacked thru the mobile network!!!

[EarlZ]

Agree that andriod is for people that tinker or at least know their way around mobile phones, iOS and WP7 is good for those who want to get it to work out of the box for call and SMS/email, no changes required.. pretty much iOS and WP7 will cater even to the oldies as Ive noticed a lot of elderly from AT&T using IP4.

[EarlZ]

better compared to symbian OS nila..

Since we were in the discussion about Nokia getting a new OS so the "better compared to what" does not include the current one Nokia has but something like new choice A vs B. But anyway.

[risklight]

di kaha sila maglisud magdevelop ug mga phones with wn7 platform?

[EarlZ]

Rovio: Nokia is beyond saving now

Even the creator of the Angry Birds does not like the new Nokia and Microsoft alliance.

[EarlZ]