Actually, no. No offense but if I had a $1000 for everyone who said "Nokia should have gone with Android", I'd have enough money to buy Nokia myself. Nokia was is dire straits. MSFT offered the most cash to bail them out. No one else was going to help them out like that. Look at how crowded Android is. Only Samsung makes serious money. LG, Sony, HTC have very good offerings and they're barely gonna turn a profit. So all of a sudden Nokia would instantly stop bleeding cash and money would be raining in like Samsung or Apple if they have just ported over Android? Seriously?
I've seen some celebs in person, with less make up and they look really good...good enough to ****. They're a ton a better looking normal people out there too. The big issue is that we train our youth to be so beauty obsessed across contemporary cultural lines these days that all many people want is fakeness. Look at the British girl with spend all that money just to look like Kim K. That's just not cool right there.
The problem is Nokia had a good market in the emerging markets and that was due to their low end phones and Symbian being a pretty open system. Nokia cannot survive on emerging markets alone though. No one really cared much about Nokia anymore. A couple of places here and there in the EU.
Without a large market and relying on low end phones only, Nokia wouldn't be able to survive unless it made major cuts itself.
Exactly. HTC experienced the reverse when the bailed on the low and market to share Apple like profits. They produced some good high mid ranged devices they sold at high end prices and bombed out.
The trick is that what may be needed is the switch to competent software to accent very solid hardware at each price point. It isn't about hardware anymore - that's what Apple has shown.
I just finish watching a series on BBC called the 'Men who made us spend'. It's based on another documentary called the 'Light bulb conspiracy' which talks about how products are engineered with obsolescence. Both are good and are real eye openers. The BBC one is three episodes. All four explain our messed up society pretty well... from an economic point of view.
All these big tech companies are trying to pull an Apple with their products. Even MS instead of looking at different markets or different ideas. They all want what Apple has.
It has always been about making super profits. The only way to do that is to grab from others and exploiting the labor of people and not matching pay to their efforts.
The more I read about these layoffs the more I'm thinking of letting WP go for a year or two.