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Nokia shutters U.S. flagship stores
In other news: http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/nokia_shutters_us_flagship_stores_as_floundering_cellphone_maker_fails/
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Nokia
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Can Nokia take on Apple iPhone and RIM BlackBerry?
With a headline like that I can reduce this article to a single word: No. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ideas/can-nokia-take-on-apple-iphone-and-rim-blackberry/article1392583/
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Version Arithmetic
Remember when I laid out the timeline for Nokia’s response to the iPhone? Still checking off the milestones:…
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Maemo
Insipid and irrational politics are symptomatic to a company trapped by rigidity of response to asymmetric attack (and you can quote me on that.) Nokia, the world’s leader in total mobile phone sales seems to be having…
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Serving the Needs of IT
An interesting note in the latest Canalys Smartphone quarterly summary (http://www.canalys.com/pr/2009/r2009112.htm): “…in our October study of 600 European decision makers in medium and large enterprises, more than 20%…
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Apples vs. Nokia in North America
Comparing US sales of iPhones vs. Nokia’s NA device business. AT&T iPhones activated in Q3: 3.2 million Nokia phones sold in North America Q3: 3.1 million (obviously, Nokia’s figures include Canada and Apple might have…
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Apple vs. Nokia on Profitability of Devices
Apple wiped the floor with Nokia. Twice the net profit and almost on par with gross profit. Nokia spent a whole billion dollars a quarter in R&D. The R&D take is 10.2% of sales.
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Peugeot Renault and Citroen
I’m trying explain the complete lack of interest in Nokia among the US blogging/early adopter audience. If you are an enthusiast, why do you not care about the market leader. The automotive analogy is not quite perfect,…
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On Units and Platforms
When thinking about the number of devices shipping out of Apple, and the relative value of those units compared to the competition you have to always think of the platform. The market leader Nokia claimed to have sold…
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Comes With Trouble
I can’t believe this. http://musically.com/blog/2009/10/15/comes-with-music-107k-users-worldwide/ For kicks, I looked up what I wrote about Comes With Music (CWM) a year ago: Trouble Comes With Music By Horace Dediu on…