Comment on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake
018118055@sopuli.xyz 11 months agoAll credit to Microsoft, but as an ex Nokian my feeling is that Nokia killed itself unwittingly when it bought NavTeq. Because of that sunk cost, they were unwilling to adopt Android as it would invalidate the acquisition, with the leaders responsible still at the reins. Life with Android would be far from the heyday of the past, but living is living.
alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
I was using the N900 when it came out and at that point Android was in no way superior to whatever Nokia was doing. Their main misstep was choosing Windows Phone and shipping the N9 as a dead-on-arrival product. Nonetheless the UX was pretty ahead of its time and we could have had a real Qt based Linux phone OS
018118055@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I love my N900 and N9 but by the time they were released Android already had unstoppable momentum. It’s all about software developers uptake of the platform. Maemo didn’t have it, WP had barely more, but neither was enough to compete. I think Nokia could have been the peer of Samsung as an Android OEM. Their logistics was arguably better even though they didn’t have the vertical integration of Samsung.