Comment on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake
alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year agoI 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 1 year 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.