versus
Nokia working on two low-end MeeGo smartphones
from a few days ago with nearly 80'000 hits in Google
the 808 PureView will sell in higher numbers on its own then all the NOKIA m$ devices together.
no matter how big they make them.
m$ is dead.
always have been & always will be in the phone arena, already lost most of the server market (except maybe exchange...) to GNU / Linux.
the only thing still holding them afloat is the LostDOS licenses consumers have to pay whenever they buy a PC & companies feel they have to keep buying, 'cuz that's what everybody uses, right?
give it another couple years & that will dry up too
and long before that Flop will be gone
and MeeGo... will be sold a billion times...
you have your whole leg down your throat
versus...
June 26th, 2011... Nokia will not return to MeeGo even if N9 turns out to be a hit, says Stephen Elop
From the article:
"In an interview with Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop confirmed that even if the N9 proves to be a massive success, there is no returning to MeeGo for Nokia. Nokia instead will be betting everything on Windows Phone 7 platform and Elop is confident that it will be well received."
Nokia n9 was not a hit. Good first try, but not good enough. Does it have a potential, yes. But that is not enough. Apple usurped Nokia at it's game and nokia is left to join another ecosystem. I think the choice of MS is a good one. Resources are there and determination is there. Apple was left without it's leader and it will be interesting to see how Apple does creatively without Jobs. MS is a good software company. Lumia 800 is a good basic smartphone, and let's face it, so is N9. The lack of apps is a killer among young crowds. Young crowds love to show off games and new snazzy apps, and Apple wins. Nokia showed that they are NOT a software company. So forget Meego as a high end. It's not smooth, and it's not stable enough to succeed where it matters.
The big day is here. But nearly all 39 AT&T stores within proximity of Times Square in Manhattan were either closed for Easter Sunday or did not answer phone calls. The few that were open did not have the handset in stock.
When AT&T stores within five miles of Times Square were contacted around noon, 18 of them played an automated message saying they were closed for Easter. Nineteen stores that were authorized AT&T resellers did not answer the phone, and two AT&T resellers that were open said they did not have the Lumia 900 yet.
The stores that played the automated voice message also played a short advertisement for the iPhone 4S and made no mention of the Lumia 900. “Visit our store to see the exciting iPhone 4S and how only AT&T’s network lets your iPhone 4S download three times faster,” a female voice said.
It’s odd that such a highly anticipated phone is so difficult to purchase in a store on its release date, at least in New York. Analysts and tech followers view the Lumia 900, priced at $100, as the make-it-or-break-it device for Microsoft and Nokia, two tech giants who are struggling to gain a foothold in the smartphone market.
Who else in their right mind would choose to launch their biggest product release of the year on the day when 70% of all stores are closed? Really what were they thinking. Was christmas day too far away?
I would like to hope that maybe someone wanted to create a false sense of demand for this product as that Article Title would suggest? However with watching how nokia has been handling their show for so long now, I would not have a hard time believing its yet another cock up in an endless cycle of cock ups.
Props to them getting to #5 on the amazon top 10 phones list though. They still have some way to go before they are up there with the kindles and iPhones in the electronics general list. Gotta wait and see I suppose.
