Posts by swareInTheNews 11 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Oct 2010
Hmmm. Well, I quite often use my mobile to txt or make calls while on the ferry to/from work & home. At about 25 knots across the harbour your concept would basically turn my phone off which in turn would piss me off more than just a little bit.
I imagine that some trains and buses might move at more than 16kph as well, even around town...
Well, let's see, that would be guaranteed cash from M$ to Nokia of $1Bn over 5 years, Nokia *might* get to claw back smartphone market share and therefore get new sales revenues on their hardware plus they *might* get some ad revenues versus about 25% loss on share value at about $6Bn, plus loss of the sunk-cost of R&D and net present value in Symbian, MeeGo & other software, maybe $65Bn according to estimates floating around various blogs.
On the other hand, MS get guaranteed licensing for every Nokia smartphone WP7 OS sold, access to a huge patent portfolio, access to a good mapping/geolocation application and some other pretty good mobile software, no hardware development costs, a smallish share value increase worth maybe $1Bn and maybe future ad revenue, versus said $1Bn to Nokia over 5 years.
Seems to me to be a pretty damn good deal. For Microsoft. And maybe for Elop depending on how much he got paid...
I continue to be amazed that major and minor Nokia shareholders haven't yet made the kind of fuss that would get Elop kicked out his CEO's office due to the simply huge loss in value that they've experienced from his announcement of the pair-up with Microsoft.
Looking at Nokia's (NOA3.DE - Yahoo's UK Finance chart) share price today compared with 9 February immediately before the announcement, the loss has been about 24.8%. When you combine that with the (admittedly sunk-cost) value thrown away with the effective dumping of Symbian (estimated at a value of $50Bn on it's own), MeeGo & Qt, the scale of the loss in shareholder value is just staggering.
Paris because like her I just don't understand...
In your article you ask, "On the tablet question, the thought is that Microsoft will be able to convince Nokia to go with full Windows."
I don't understand your reasoning behind this - what part of "Elop used to work for Microsoft" don't you get? There is no convincing necessary.
I totally agree with the sentiment.
I love my old N95 and was going to go to a new N8 (I like Symbian despite it's faults and at least it's not iOS; none of the Android phones have grabbed my attention) but decided to wait on the announcement on the future OS before giving Nokia my cash. I too had a lot of loyalty (yes, fanboy-ness) to Nokia, but my loyalty to MS is in high negative numbers. Now I think I might wait for a little longer and check out the HP webOS phones instead.
I only need 1 swear word to describe my reaction to this from Nokia: "Elop".
Reading through the article and comments, I couldn't help reflecting on Elop's comments about building with a new partner and ecosystem, and how Symbian doesn't do it for Nokia any longer (at the high end anyway). The timing of his announcements and this presentation/announcement from HP seems suspicious - maybe Nokia is teaming with HP to bring webOS to their high-end smartphones thereby building into what could well be a burgeoning ecosystem and not at all coincidentally giving HP an immediate leg-up in the mobile handset stakes, where they have a clear lack of any modern offering, especially considering Nokia's undoubted excellence in hardware.
Probably HP are the better organisation to actually succeed with pushing webOS to the wider marketplace than Nokia, simply because of their existing market penetration, scale and breadth of offering, albeit not in mobile. Teaming with Nokia and using a common OS that is highly web-enabled at the outset, allowing a fully integrated offering from smartphone through to desktop would be a clever move for both companies. IMHO.
And if that is the case, we may well be hearing an early echo of the death knell for WP7.
This makes the next Nokia announcements (11 Feb) even more interesting to anticipate...
That Elop was, and probably still is, a Microsoft man. And once captured by The Beast, I suspect it's awfully hard to get away (you can run but you can't hide).
But if he makes Nokia go WP7-only on their smartphone range, as some are predicting and for sure this is what his speech reads like, I for one won't be buying any more Nokia smartphones (currently use an N95 and am going to N8) because WP7 sucks big-time.
February 11 might be Nokia's "day of infamy" if this occurs. I'm not much looking forward to hearing what Elop has to say...
What cancer did they actually remove from Jobs? We were told it was a Pancreatic but from some of the bizarre decisions he's been making in recent times maybe it was a brain tumour... and it sounds like they removed a lot more than just that. Like the whole thing.
Paris because unlike the MacFanbois at least she asks to get screwed.
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