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In the recent series of exposés on Nokia’s new strategy I sought to paint a background for what caused such a dramatic decision: This gives a backdrop to the decision, but it does not explain the most crucial part of the…
The Windows Phone platform currently has hardware specifications that imply a cellular phone device. What is interesting in light of the new WebOS TouchPad, the newly announced Android tablets, the RIM Playbook and the…
In the last quarter Nokia sold 28.3 million Symbian phones. The average selling price was €156 or approximately $210. That price was down 17% year-on-year. According to the company, The 17% year-on-year decline in our…
Stephen Elop stated that Nokia expects to sell approximately 150 million more Symbian devices before the transition to Windows Phone is complete. Assuming that figure is achievable (which is far from certain) I tried to…
In a recent post I pointed out that Apple’s R&D was about 2.2% of sales in the last quarter. Bernstein took a look at the R&D for Nokia and presented a chart showing the difference between the mobile industry players in…
Yesterday I made my predictions on Nokia’s new platform strategy. They should be treated as pure guesswork, but they are informed guesses. I based them on public information. That information comes in the form of…
Nokia must compete on an ecosystem to ecosystem basis. In addition to great device experiences we must build, capitalize and/or join a competitive ecosystem. The ecosystem approach we select must be comprehensive and…
Several readers pointed out that in my discussion on the market share of modular vs. inter-dependent market shares for smartphones, Nokia was incorrectly classified as having an inter-dependent software architecture…
A complete market overview will follow when all the top tier vendors report the last quarter, but in the mean-time here are some data that are available: Smartphone volumes for Nokia, Apple and RIM: Whereas Nokia is…
“I am sure there are things we could have done better and innovations we missed,” Ms. Suominen added. “But that happens to all companies. We have been very successful with some other innovations.” She cited Nokia’s large…