Comments on: Nokia And Microsoft’s ‘Special Partnership’ Just Another Windows Phone http://paidcontent.org/2011/10/27/419-nokia-and-microsofts-special-partnership-just-another-windows-phone/ The economics of digital content Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:54:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Whodaboss http://paidcontent.org/2011/10/27/419-nokia-and-microsofts-special-partnership-just-another-windows-phone/#comment-85865 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 01:56:22 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/10/27/419-nokia-and-microsofts-special-partnership-just-another-windows-phone/#comment-85865 This article made absolutely no sense to me.  Please go write about all the iProducts you want and all the Android products out there since you believe they’re on the right path.  You can tell this is a Microsoft hater!  Haters do what they do best – Hate!

]]> By: dreyfus_ffm http://paidcontent.org/2011/10/27/419-nokia-and-microsofts-special-partnership-just-another-windows-phone/#comment-85864 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:43:08 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/10/27/419-nokia-and-microsofts-special-partnership-just-another-windows-phone/#comment-85864 Well, the article is right. For Nokia it is not about what OS is winning, it is about what phone maker is winning (it might be different for Elop, as he still really works for MS).

The most profitable phone maker is Apple. They have one own platform = Differentiation.
The second most profitable phone maker (and likely last quarter’s leader in units shipped) is Samsung. They support Android, Windows and Bada = Choice.

Nokia is going for no choice and no differentiation. Which leaves them “cheap” as the only winning strategy. So, even if they should succeed (and I do not see that), the outcome will never be close to what they used to have (and will likely not please their investors either). They have now voted for the OS that is most behind, it has not even got support for multiple CPU cores and won’t have it before the rest of the market has already moved to quad-core SoCs, it does not support video telephony, no 1080p output due to CPU limitations, some features are US-only (like ESPN and most MS content offers), but they do not release their phones there… a winning strategy sure looks different.

Without Nokia WP7 has managed to achieve 1.6% global market share (less than any competitor, even Bada sells better). The only question they had to answer yesterday is: will the new Nokia phones bring anything to the market that is destined to change that. By all means: they did not.

]]> By: nobody http://paidcontent.org/2011/10/27/419-nokia-and-microsofts-special-partnership-just-another-windows-phone/#comment-85863 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:54:46 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/10/27/419-nokia-and-microsofts-special-partnership-just-another-windows-phone/#comment-85863 “just another window phone”? 
 
Would you rather write “just an obsoleted Symbian phone”? 
 
Or, “just another overcrowded Android phone”? 
 
What else would you call it if not Window phone on window OS?  Is window overcrowded to call just another window phone?
 
Nokia still employs their hardware design engineers.  If not Nokia hardware, would you be expecting outsourced Chinese hardware design??
 
DUH! 

]]> By: hary536 http://paidcontent.org/2011/10/27/419-nokia-and-microsofts-special-partnership-just-another-windows-phone/#comment-85862 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:50:32 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/10/27/419-nokia-and-microsofts-special-partnership-just-another-windows-phone/#comment-85862 Nokia Drive application allows you to download maps. So complete offline navigation(no need for caching), no need of any signal for drive and comes free with Nokia phones. Similarly, Nokia Music app is a free streaming app with no account needed. see this : http://www.wpcentral.com/so-why-nokia-music-we-explain
Nokia ESPN sure is  a sports application, but nicely integrated and is great for sports fans. 

]]> By: Ben Krupka http://paidcontent.org/2011/10/27/419-nokia-and-microsofts-special-partnership-just-another-windows-phone/#comment-85861 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:50:25 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/10/27/419-nokia-and-microsofts-special-partnership-just-another-windows-phone/#comment-85861 What are you talking about? This has hooks everywhere. You can easily tie a WP7 device into any Win 7 computer (and soon Win 8)  plus it automatically backs all of your phone’s data into Microsoft’s Skydrive platform (which gives you 25 GB of storage… for free).  Next time, please be a little more informed when you choose to throw your hat into a discussion. 

Thanks,

The Informed

]]> By: rob http://paidcontent.org/2011/10/27/419-nokia-and-microsofts-special-partnership-just-another-windows-phone/#comment-85860 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:11:41 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/10/27/419-nokia-and-microsofts-special-partnership-just-another-windows-phone/#comment-85860 there is no integration with the MS computer platform 

iCloud ties everything together nicely

Android sort of does this with google calendar ? the interface is just so damned ugly

Elop and Balmer is this the best you can do ? 

so sad… 

]]> By: guest http://paidcontent.org/2011/10/27/419-nokia-and-microsofts-special-partnership-just-another-windows-phone/#comment-85859 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:54:58 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/10/27/419-nokia-and-microsofts-special-partnership-just-another-windows-phone/#comment-85859 Hah, “echo system.” Nice freudian slip, as that’s essentially what it is.

]]> By: Patrick Lambert - TideArt http://paidcontent.org/2011/10/27/419-nokia-and-microsofts-special-partnership-just-another-windows-phone/#comment-85858 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:31:39 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/10/27/419-nokia-and-microsofts-special-partnership-just-another-windows-phone/#comment-85858 It still doesn’t make me likely to use a Windows Phone really.. not when both the iPhone and Android still have a much bigger echo system.

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