About two years ago Nokia launched N97 as a response to the iPhone challenge – all of us who explored this ‘innovative’ new Nokia phone was rather surprised that it was possible to launch anything as poor as this …?#$...Not only was this a poor mimic of the iPhone, but it was low quality and really poor usability – ages away from anything that could resemble the iPhone or challenge the iPhone. At the time I predicted 10 years before Nokia would go bankrupt if this was the best they could come up with… In the meantime the Google Android OS has been launched and embraced by most of Nokia’s competitors – Android is a real challenge to iPhone, but Nokia did not follow the crowd, they continued with Symbian, until now…. Nokia is so down on their knees that they actually marries another mobile looser, Microsoft mobile 7 which their partners have left already to the benefit of the much more user friendly Android.
HPC, one of the more successful smartphone providers left the Microsoft platform and shifted early to the much more modern Android. Why would Nokia think they will be successful with Microsoft 7 – have they not noticed that there has been a shift of paradigm and that the iPhone, and now Android, represents a disruptive technology? Just like the mobile communication technology (GSM, GPRS, etc) was to the land line telephony in the beginning of the 90's…
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