Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Windows Phone 8: Do you think Nokia is doomed ? Do you think Microsoft just backstab it ? 20 reasons the answer is NO


[In no particular order]
1. do you know that Facetime and Siri DO NOT WORK on IPhone 3,3G,3GS, and 4 ?
2. do you expect a phone without a camera to take photos after an OS upgrade ?
3. did you hear of wp7.8 - 3rd upgrade for wp7 ?
4. do you know that except Samsung, the other android phones makers earn in cents ?
5. did you ever hear about commodity devices and downward price spiral ?
6. do you know that a painted rock with a sony or apple written on it would sell, but that a nokia written on a gold tablet cannot sell in US ?
7. do you know that android 2.3.x share is 65% and android 4.x is 7% ?
8. do you know that wp8 has 18months guaranteed upgrades period ?
9. do you know that a phone lifetime is <6months and not 10years like a gaming console ?
10. do you know that a phone is no longer a phone but is a computer ?
11. did you hear about 'smoked by windows phone ?'
12. did you understand that a single core wp7 beat dual core android, iphone and others
13. did you hear that wp8 is dual core qualcomm snapdragon, not to mention the ecosystem benefits of w8 surface tablet, w8 pcs, xbox.
14. did you hear about asha line of nokia basic phones
15. dont you think/speculate the prospects of being the sole-licencee/exclusive maker of surface tablet will be good
16. do you pick RIM or NOKIA as having more prospects for the coming 2 years.
17. do you see any differentiators in nokia like those of RIM [enterprise friendly, secure backbone]
18. do you realize that if RIM jumps on the Android bandwagon, it can win because of its differentiating factors; but nokia cannot and will have a single thread to hang on like htc one
19. do you realize that nokia[2008] is no comparison to samsung [a conglomerate]
20. do you know that Android guys have to pay licensing fee; and running/battling in courts with Apple/Microsoft?

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