Nokia market share to fall below Samsung, Apple Nokia has been knocked off the top of the smartphone totem pole by Samsung, Japanese investment bank Nomura said today. Worse, Apple will overtake the Finnish phone giant in Q3, the bank forecast, Reuters reports. Both Samsung and Apple already outsell Nokia in Europe, in the overall mobile market and the smartphone arena, …
Nokia thinks it must compete against Google.
But, Nokia is in the handset market not the OS market. And Google does not make handsets.
Focusing only on the Microsoft OS will only limit the marketplace for Nokia. While other true competitors for Nokia can make both a Microsoft and a Google phone.
Elop still thinks he works for Microsoft.
Elop claimed that Google was a competitor( of Nokia I presume ) and also that if they chose Android they would be just another Android phone vendor. Both are bogus since Elop does not work for Microsoft any more(questionable) and are they not now just another Windows phone vendor.
That Nokia are finding themselves in the poo. Their hardware really is much better than the others, just let down by less than stellar software. To be honest, the software is pretty good, but just not as good as the competition. Feature wise the phones are right up there - the N8 has the best camera, and a very solid feature set. Just not the GUI bells and whistles that everyone wants.
Next phone I get will be a cheap Nokia - the cheap SS I have really is diabolical. Don't want a smartphone (even though I work on smartphones for a living), just something that can actually makes calls from home (which the SS fails at abysmally). That means a Nokia. Shame that there is so little money to be made at the low end.
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