HTC will hit a brick wall in Q3 and then it is free falling. HTC pioneered WM and Android, as well as WP. Within a year they will be gone. A bit sad, I have had a couple of HTCs.
I can't honestly say that I've got any sort of curiousity for any new Lumia branded products. At all. They are, in my book, completely irrelevant products.
I can't honestly say that I've got any sort of curiousity for any new Lumia branded products. At all. They are, in my book, completely irrelevant products.
I'm looking for a LUMIA PAD. But surface pro is the top of the line. Lumia phone. Sure, If my employer pay for it. Why not?
Nokias problem is size. It's too large to sustain selling S40 and S30 devices even though sales are shifting dramatically toward the more expensive S40 devices. It needs to shrink more. Accelerated growth of WP would help of course, but that is not a solution Nokia can live with, it needs to become profitable in it's main business of S30 and S40.
S40 may well be NOKIA's 'main business' now but, lest we forget... "Elop's Microsoft announcement has effectively bankrupted the Nokia Symbian smartphone unit which made 20% of Nokia phones, generated 30% of Nokia revenues and produced a whopping 40% of Nokia profits when he took over. He killed his cash cow. Voluntarily."
... T. Ahonen
S40 gives more bang for the buck than anything out there, and it is selling by the billions, literally, but it is no solution for high end, and it is no solution for Europe or NA. Here the competition is iOS and Android.
The Ashas are more interesting than the Lumias. The Asha 303 looks like it should be a slider, if it was I'd quite like one.
Well, I shouldn't make any generalizations but at the moment, Samsung is the company that brings new product to the market that people buy. LG may be earlier with some features but people don't buy it. And South Korea as a whole is much less playing catch-up than five years ago, three years ago.
Also, even China is starting to innovate. They're well aware that they've been a follower for all these years, and are trying to change their engineers straight out of the educational system. If they can manage to drop the idea of only copying the best, the rest of the world is in trouble.
There's no telling who is innovating at any given time, all products we see now are the results of a mainstreaming process that takes years to reach the market.
Last edited by volt; 2012-08-08 at 06:08.
Reason: "Korea as a whole" will still be playing catch up for quite some time, so let me rephrase as "South Korea as a whole".
