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2010.Realization that iPhone is a threat from new dimensions (user experience). Planning begins on reshaping the software base as a market-driven (not technology-driven) asset (5 year cycle). Apple begins to be evaluated…
Roughly translated: Nokia is rapidly losing share in the smartphone market in Finland. The iPhone is becoming a large part of the market. Sales grew in the first quarter but a growing slice of revenues is going to…
“We have long maintained that the company’s ponderous corporate culture would eventually find its footing, but with competitors attacking fiercely at both the low and high end, deterioration in its core European market,…
The most impressive number for us is the change in units shipped. For example, leader Nokia held 66.6% of the marketshare in Q1 of ’09, and 45.2% in Q2 for a 7% change in units shipped. Meanwhile, Apple held 10.2% in Q1…
A spokesman for Nokia, the world’s top cellphone maker, declined to comment on the sales number, saying the company was pleased with sales, but an executive was more bullish. “Sales have substantially exceeded…
Four out of 10 sales of the iPhone are made to enterprise users. When the iPhone came out, what most people heard in the first year from ‘07 to ‘08 was oh my God, it’s not BlackBerry secure. This is not going to work on…
Consumer tastes have overtaken the needs of business as the leading force shaping technology. via New King of Technology – Apple Overtakes Microsoft – NYTimes.com. Why is it that other “consumer-oriented” companies like…
In 2007, 14% of Britons’ online time was spent on IM, according to the UK Online Measurement company – but that has fallen to just 5%, the firm says, basing its findings on the habits of a panel of 40,000 computer users.…
And so this morning, the handset maker announced another sweeping overhaul of its management structure, its second reorganization in less than a year. via Nokia Reorgs Evidently Biannual | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily…
Nokia chairman Jorma Ollila said the company’s management is fully supported by the board via Nokia board backs CEO, new device strategy | Electronista. In my assessment of Nokia’s competitive response to the mobile…